Open Office woes

[TubaTodd]

OK, after reading about all the praises being written about Open Office, I decided to put it on my new laptop. I went to the website, clicked "Download", waited forever to it to download, went through the installation process and got the message that it didn't install correctly. I've done this twice with the same result. Is this program not compatable with Windows 7?

I've installed Openoffice 3.2.1 on numerous Win7 machines. I'm not sure what happened for you. Try uninstalling it completely. Run CCleaner (including the registry cleaner part) to properly cleanup any remnants. Download the openoffice for Windows from openoffice.org. Run the installer.

[Donn]

I find it to be extraordinarily more user-friendly than the Seattle-based counterpart.

Redmond.

[eupher61]

Schlep,
the most important thing to remember to do, when saving a document, is save it in an appropriate format. If you are going to be emailing the document, save it in a MS Office format (I usually do the 2000/2003/XP since a lot of people still use XP).

Otherwise, the default is an Open Office format, which will not open in MS office.

It's da bomb, I tellz ya.

steve

[Donn]

Schlep,
the most important thing to remember to do, when saving a document, is save it in an appropriate format. If you are going to be emailing the document, save it in a MS Office format (I usually do the 2000/2003/XP since a lot of people still use XP).

Only needed if the other party also needs to edit the document. Writers collaborating via email, in other words.

If you just want me to read something you wrote, don't send it in MS Office format. It would be a gigantic waste of email bandwidth, not only because it is not very space efficient - I can't read it anyway. There should be something like an "Export" option somewhere on there, and that's where you go to create a finished result, to print or hand out for other people to read. I don't know the options, but anything is probably OK - PDF, RTF, plain text, HTML, whatever. For ordinary email, plain text is best.

[TubaTodd]

There should be something like an "Export" option somewhere on there, and that's where you go to create a finished result, to print or hand out for other people to read. I don't know the options, but anything is probably OK - PDF....

BAM!!!!!!!

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