On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 17:09 +0100, Helen Sturrock wrote: > Hi - I openly admit to not been at all techy-minded! I do know that I do not > want to pay the Gates Empire the kind of money they're asking for a basic > word package - over £300!!!! Can your site offer me a free download of a > basic word package and if so are there idiot-proof instructions that I can > follow. > > Many thanks and kind regards, Helen (Scotland)
I think so. Before you start, please have a look at the setup guides at http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/index.html For your purposes, I suggest that you start with the stable release 1.1.4 even though 1.1.5 will be available is a short while. After downloading 1.1.4 you will have to unpack it and run the appropriate setup command for your OS. This is where pre-reading the setup guide is probably useful. Your should also check the system requirements for your machine at http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs.html I believe that once you have done the above, you will find installation pretty straight forward. Also, please note that users@openoffice.org is a mailing list and the best email address you can use when you have a users problem or question about OpenOffice.org. However please note that it is a moderated email list and most replies *only* go to the mailing list so you should really consider subscribing by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are many questions asked and answered on the users mailing list every day, if you find that there are too many emails then you can read the messages to these lists on http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.openoffice.questions or subscribe to the digest version of the list by emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
