Hi Herbert,
Thank you for you advice. I have now downloaded open office 2 on to a
memory stick and shall transfer it to the other computer.
Many thanks again for your guidance. Our computer expert is abroad for a
few months, so I had to find an alternative way of getting the info.
Cheers
Paul
Mike Wye & Associates
Natural Building & Decorating Products
www.mikewye.co.uk
Tel: 01409-281644 Fax 01409-281669
Buckland Filleigh Sawmills
Buckland Filleigh
Beaworthy
Devon EX21 5RN
Monday-Friday 8am - 4.30pm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Herbert Eppel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <users@openoffice.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 5:33 PM
Subject: [users] Re: [moderated]
On 02.03.2006 14:53 UK Time, Mike Wye wrote:
No, the link worked fine the first time. I am simply not sure what I
need to do to put it on to a CD. I am afraid that the language used is
not my language. I am sure that it seems obvious to most people who would
access open office but not to me I am sorry to say, hence I am reluctant
to downlaod anything that I can't use or might cause a problem. For
example I don't see how I can get 500MB in to a CD or how desirable it
would be to fill my hard drive with this size file.
Does this make sense?
Sort of, but not entirely.
First of all, I'm not sure where you got the 500 MB figure from, but
anyway, even if it was 500 MB it wouldn't be a problem fitting it onto a
CD (which holds between 700 and 800 MB, as far as I am aware - and,
incidentally, DVDs have about 10 times that capacity!)
Secondly, if you want to install OpenOffice you can't avoid filling your
hard drive with a significant amount of data, because that's what happens
with any software you install.
The actual space taken up the OpenOffice installation is about 200 MB,
which sounds a lot, but then again you get a lot for it!
You have several options:
1. You can download it yourself from http://www.openoffice.org, in which
case you would simply click on the big green button and follow the
instructions - but you said you don't want to connect the computer on
which you want to install OpenOffice to the internet, so that rules out
that option. In any case, unless you have a broadband connection, this
isn't really practical because the file is too large.
2. You can download the file as described under 1. above via a different
computer and then save the installation file on a CD yourself so that you
can install it on the non-internet computer, but you say you don't know
how to put things on CD - perhaps you could ask someone locally how to do
it?
3. You can go to http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom, select one of
the UK-based suppliers and simply order a CD for about a fiver and have it
delivered through the post and take it from there.
4. I would still be happy to prepare a CD for you, but that would simply
be a different form of option 3., and perhaps you would like to explore
options 1 to 3 above first?
Cheers
Herbert Eppel
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