[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I downloaded your office 2.3.1.When I tried to open word, a screen presented
asking me for the 16 digit
Microsoft code. What do I do? Do I need to now buy that program?
No, you don't need it. If you are getting to this point by trying to
open a .doc file, you probably are seeing the results of a leftover file
association to a trial copy of Word that has expired. Ordinarily, if you
don't want MS Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to open these
files, during installation you allow OpenOffice.org to be the default
application for its file types (.doc, .xls, .ppt,...). In this case, the
application you want is Writer (swriter.exe), or the more general
soffice.exe -- not Word at all. You can generally fix the file
association by right-clicking on a file and selecting the "open with"
option, finding OpenOffice, and telling the operating system to always
use this program for files of this type. Then you'll be able to
double-click .doc files to open them with Writer. If you don't have that
option,
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859
should help you out. If you are dealing with .docx files, only the
newest MS Office programs work with them so far. I think you can find a
free viewer (try Google), or you could ask whoever sent you the file to
send it in .doc form.
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