Thankyou.
Carol Wonfor
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From: "Dan Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [users] [moderated] Install Writer Only
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 06:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Thankyou for that information and do you think a lap top has enough
memory for it? is it a big program? after having to send it back
for a new hard drive when I don't use it a lot I am so afraid of
messing it up. Also will the spell checker work with outlook
express? as I don't know how to get Outlook.
Thank you for your patience.
Carol Wonfor
If your computer is only a few months old, it should have enough
memory. However, you did not say how much RAM (memory) your laptop
has. On Windows XP Home, OOo will run on 256 MB of RAM, but 512 MB
would be better.
As far an email client, Mozilla's Thunderbird seems to work quite
well on Windows XP and it has its own spellchecker. It possibly has
other abilities that OE does not. Howver, if you want to stick with
OE, there are very inexpensive programs available on the Internet
which will work as an OE spellchecker.
Thunderbird is available at www.mozilla.org, and it is a free
download.
Dan
On Wed, 13 December, 2006 3:00 am, Dave Barton wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 20:09 +0000, Carol Wonfor wrote:
>> I have windows XP home on a laptop with no word or outlook I am
>> used to using word and I see yours is compatible but not being a
>> very competent computer user I see I can download open office
>> for free but I would like to just download the writer is this
>> possible as I don't want to put stuff on computer I don't need,
>> it is only a few months old and it has already been back and
>> they put in a new hard drive.
>>
>> I'm not really sure of the implications of downloading it as I
>> was just told to get onto the site by a friend.
>>
>> Can you help me with what I need
>>
>>
>> Thank you Carol Wonfor
>
> OOo (OpenOffice.org) is not a collection of separate programs, it
> is one unified office suite built around a large common core.
> Consequently, you cannot download individual components (eg. the
> Writer word processor).
>
> Although you have to download the complete package you can, using
> the custom install option, choose to install just the components
> you wish to use. I would advise against this option, as you will
> save very little in terms of disk space and you may loose access
> to some additional helpful functions within OOo.
>
> If you do not wish to go through the download process (which is
> not difficult) you can obtain a copy on CD for a small (around
> US$10.00) charge from one of the distributors listed here:
> http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/index.html#cdrom
> Make sure they are offering the latest version (ie. 2.1.0)
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Dave
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