Hi,
You should have remove the installation files folder after you
installed OpenOffice.
You need to set up your buttons so that they point to the program in
Program Files/OpenOffice and not the folder on your desktop which are
simply the files used to install openoffice.
So when you click browse you must browse to the folder you installed
openoffice to... have you actually installed the program? if not run
the setup.exe file
Tom
On 5 Apr 2007, at 15:06, Dalziel wrote:
Thanks for your recent query. Using/Selecting the Trust Keyboard icon
- a picture of the Trust Hotkeys is displayed
- One selects the hotkey to be configured By clicking on it
- a grey 'Configure Button' panel is displayed.
Using this panel
- One gives the button a label e.g. 'Word Processor
- then one enters the Application path or URL with a 'Browse'
button being supplied to assist one in this task
- Having entered the path one then selects the 'OK' button
I assume that this will be Trust software but is fairly standard
with similar panels being supplied to configure other pieces of
hardware. It works perfectly well in allocating Microsoft Works and
Microsoft Office programs (which I have in read only mode) to
selected buttons but when I attempt to allocate Open Office
programs to the same buttons I get the message 'The application has
failed to start because uwinapi.dll was not found. Reinstalling the
application may solve the problem' . I have tried to reinstall but
to no effect. The installation has obviouisly worked as Powerpoint
slide shows and Word documents can be read via relevant Open Office
programs which have been set up on installation as defaults. As I
have previously said the file UWINAPI.DLL can be traced to the
openofficeorg3 folder held in the same folder as Setup.exe e.g.
OpenOffice.org 2.1 Installation Files folder which in turn is held
in Desktop.
The solution must be simple and I do hope that you can help as a
working hot key does save some time.
Yours Dalziel Aitchison
-------Original Message-------
From: Harold Fuchs
Date: 03/31/07 18:34:53
To: users@openoffice.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [users] FAO Harold Fuchs Re: [users] UWINAPI.DLL could
not be accessed
Dalziel wrote:
Thanks for your prompt reply.
I think that I did everthing required through to executing
'Setup.exe' which as you say asked about Word, Excel and Powerpoint
i.e. did I want to make OO the default to handle such documents. I
must have done this correctly as I received an email with a
powerpoint slideshow which was handled by OO.
As I say the file UWINAPI.DLL can be seen in openofficeorg3 folder
held in the same folder as Setup.exe e.g. OpenOffice.org 2.1
Installation Files folder which in turn is held in Desktop. The
problem being that after setting up my keyboard hot keys I get the
message deetailed in my previous email below i.e. 'The application
has failed to start because uwinapi.dll was not found. Reinstalling
the application may solve the problem' .
Hope that you can help
Dalziel Aitchison
-------Original Message-------
From: Harold Fuchs
Date: 03/28/07 00:52:58
To: users@openoffice.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [users] UWINAPI.DLL could not be accessed
Dalziel wrote:
I have just (24.3.2007) downloaded version 2.1 of OpenOffice.org.
My problem is : I have attempted to set the hot keys on my Trust
Silverline Keyboard to rapidly access OpenOffice Writer Calc and
Impress and in each case I get the message 'The application has
failed to start because uwinapi.dll was not found. Reinstalling the
application may solve the problem'.
uwinapi.dll appears to be in folder OpenOfficeOrg3.cab
I have reinstalled the application but still get the same response.
Please note that to remove the application first (prior to
reinstalling) using OpenOffice Install/Remove software was not
possible as it stopped responding. I had to use my Windows XP
software to remove the system prior to reinstalling.
The Trust Silverline Hotkeys mentioned above have previously been
used to access the equivalent Microsoft Works programs with
absolutely no problem.
As I mentioned in my registration of OpenOffice, Microsoft Works is
good but does not have all the features of Microsoft Office which
being a pensioner I cannot afford. My son recommended that I
downloaded OpenOffice as he had found it excellent and totally
reliable.
I would welcome your assistance in this problem please.
Dalziel Aitchison
Tel: 01484 713491
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't believe you have installed OpenOffice (OO); instead I think
you have only downloaded it, which is not the same.
Installing OO is a 3-step process:
1. Download the file to a folder of your choice, typically the desktop
2. Run the downloaded file. This will cause it to "unpack" itself
into quite a large number of files and folders which it places in a
folder of your choice, typically the desktop
3. Execute the program "setup.exe from within one of the folders
created in #2. This step *normally happens automatically* once step
#2 has completed.
At this point OO asks you a number of questions including how you
want it to handle Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
documents.
Once you have completed #3, you can delete the file you downloaded
in #1 *and* the folder and its contents, including subfolders, that
got created in #2.
At this point you should be able to set hotekys etc. Please note
that OO can handle (read and write) the vast majority of MS office
files but, as far as I know, cannot handle *Works* files. Instead
you need to have Works save the files in Word, Excel, ... format
first.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org
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What program are you trying to invoke via the Hotkey?
Please reply to the list as I will be away for two weeks and will
not have access to e-mail.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org
