Firstly, thank you for the response! I returned my Mac Mini for the new Intel Mac Mini with OS 10.4.5.
I have Open Office running off of X11, which I had to custom install from the OS X 10.4.5 installation DVD. I have a few questions: 1) When I open MS Word documents in my Open Office, the characters and spacing shift; my resume, for example, went from being one page in MS Word, to over 1.5 pages in Open Office. What gives? 2) Also, there is a delay in time from clicking on a menu to it actually opening - it seems slow. It also takes a long time to boot up the application after double clicking the icon. Is there a patch that would speed this up? 3) NeoOffice and AbiWord do not seem to be Intel compatible, and as far as I'm aware Open Office is the best Open Source Microsoft Word alternative available for my Mac. Are there any other applications I should consider? Thanks again for all your help, Jon Re: > You need to install Apple's X11 software, you can either download rom > Apple's web site or do a custom install from the DVD that cam with > your Mac -- after that you should be fine. > -----Original Message----- From: CPHennessy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 2/26/2006 4:15 PM To: [email protected]; Jon Silk Subject: Re: [users] Installing Open Office On Mon February 20 2006 07:20, + Jon Silk wrote: > [ MODERATED ] ******************** > I have an Apple Mac Mini and I'm running OS X Version 10.4.4. > > Before downloading Open Office, I successfully downloaded and installed Neo > Office version 1.2 Patch 0, because I was under the impression that one > must have this installed in order to install Open Office 2.0 on a > Mac/Apple. > > I then downloaded Open Office Advanced Build (2.0 Line), and when I now > open the OpenOffice.org 2 application folder, all I see is the OpenOffice > 2.0 application - there are no icons for Writer, Calc, Impress, etc. > > When I double click/open Open Office 2.0, the application, my only menu > options are: > > OpenOffice.org, File, and Edit. > > Amongst these options, almost everything I could possibly select are grayed > out -- not available for me to click on-- including all the sub menus under > OpenOffice.org > Services. > > Could anyone please tell me how to access all the Open Office applications? > I've done this on a PC before, no problem, and I know this is idiotic, and > it's because I'm a newbie, but I just cannot figure out how to open these > applications on my Mac, and I don't see this addressed in the FAQs or > Knowledge Base. As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Mon February 20 2006 20:35, Andrew Fisk wrote: > You need to install Apple's X11 software, you can either download rom > Apple's web site or do a custom install from the DVD that cam with > your Mac -- after that you should be fine. > Please reply to [email protected] only. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ
