At 18:51 28/11/2014 +1030, Tony Gallas wrote:
On 28/11/2014 5:09 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 16:44 28/11/2014 +1030, Tony Gallas wrote:
This is how I set it up for myself: I your file manager (Explore),
find add open the Open Office folder under Program Files (x86),
then under Open Office find the Program folder, open that to see
all the files. Scroll down to those beginning with "s" and you'll
find "soffice" and also "swrite", "scalc" etc. Right click on any
of these and you will be given options to create shortcuts or as I
do, pin to taskbar.Try that, let us know how you get on.
This is unnecessarily complicated. Just navigate to the entries in
Start | All Programs | OpenOffice 4.1.1 (which are called helpful
things like "OpenOffice", not "soffice.exe") and right-click any of
those for the same effect.
More complicated it is, but I'm using 8.1 which doesn't have that
facility via the Start button, or if it has, I haven't found it.
Apparently it can be configured, but I don't suggest you necessarily
do so. The original questioner has Windows 7.
As I use write and Calc mostly I find it convenient to have those
two on my taskbar.
Of course. Except that this is really not necessary. Starting swriter
or scalc doesn't so much start Writer or Calc, but starts OpenOffice
and also opens a new document of the appropriate type. If you are
generally creating new documents every time you use OpenOffice, that
would be useful. If, on the other hand, you more often open an
existing document, there is no need to "open Writer" or "open Calc":
if you start OpenOffice you can just as easily open an existing
document of any relevant type. You will notice that the Recent
Documents list, for example, contains files of various types, not
just those for the component you think you have started.
It's just possible that you are confusing how OpenOffice behaves - as
an integrated program capable of handling documents of different
types - from products such as Microsoft Office - which are a
collection of separate programs. If you have Microsoft Word open, you
cannot use File | New or File | Open or a recent documents list to
open a spreadsheet file. If you are editing in Writer, you can.
And when I installed OO it did put a shortcut on the desktop, which
I use on the odd occasions I need the other apps.
Again, there is really only one application. If you use your Writer
or Calc shortcuts, you don't need anything else. (In fact, you don't
even need both of them.) If you close your new unwanted text or
spreadsheet document, you will get straight back to the start screen.
Or you can just open the required file without closing the unwanted
one. The only need for the separate entry points is if you want both
to start OpenOffice and to create a new document of a particular type
in one operation.
Brian Barker
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