-------- Original Message -------- From: Albert L. Rodney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed 16 Apr 2008 17:27:27 EST
Hello, I have just been reading about the Open Office Suite, it sounds exciting. I am so tired of the outdated MS Office I am working with...my Word program is constantly crashing on me and trying to recover my documents and work. I did not get a MS version of SW but all the dubbed copies of Office from Dell Computers when I bought my system in 2002. My question is...can I uninstall the MS Office components to use your Suite, without loosing any of "MY Documents"??? I also have a load of original photography on my HD's and digitized versions that I have created in Photoshop. How does all this work together? I can't afford to lose any of my "creative writing" ex: poems, novels, screenplays or graphics & photography files, even if your SW is FREE. Barbara Rodney
Barbara,You don't have to worry about losing documents or other data files you have created when you uninstall the software/programs you used to create those files. Installing OOo (OpenOffice.org) will not delete, remove or otherwise interfere with anything you have created with any programs.
That said, there are couple of things you might like to consider:* You do not have to uninstall MS Office, just because you are going to install OOo. There may be the odd occasion when it may be useful to have access to MS Office. You can uninstall it if you wish, but OOo will happily co-exist on the same computer with MS Office.
* You should always regularly backup your data files (eg. writings, photographs, etc) to another medium (eg. DVD, external hard disk drive, etc.). Disk drives have a limited life and no matter how good their quality, ultimately they all fail.
There are 3 golden rules in computing ;) 1, BACKUP YOUR VALUABLE DATA REGULARLY. 2. See rule 1, 3, See rules 1 & 2. Hope this helps. Dave -- This is a mailing list which exists to support users of OpenOffice.org All answers are given by other users who volunteer their time. If you are not subscribed to this mailing list you may not see all the replies to your query. Please reply to users@openoffice.org only. You should also be aware that all details of messages posted to this list are publicly available to anyone with an Internet connection For mailing list info see: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html For on-line support see: http://support.openoffice.org/index.html For a knowledge base see: http://mindmeld.cybersite.com.au/
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