On 28-11-2014 20:10, Brian Barker wrote:
At 09:51 28/11/2014 +0100, Marina Tonly wrote:
On 28/11/14 at 7:16 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 16:50 28/11/2014 +1100, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
Go to C:\Program Files\OpenOffice 4\program and copy the file
soffice.exe and paste on your desktop.
Aaargh! Please don't suggest such misuse of a computer and its
files. People reading a public mailing list shouldn't be advised to
use such bad practice.
True, I haven't used Windows for some time now, but what Martin
suggested used to be the correct way to add a shortcut to the
desktop, as was explained in Window's own online Help.
No: what he suggested (though it transpired he didn't mean to) and
what I was replying to above was *copying* the file, not creating a
shortcut. Creating desktop shortcuts can indeed be a Good Thing!
Sorry Brian, you can't judge what I meant. And this forum is not to
defend ourself but to support users.
For updated instructions, here's what a quick search on
Duckduckgo.com produced, straight from Microsoft's online support
Website:
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140443>
All that is about creating shortcuts: there is no mention of copying
files. And the instructions there are very general to cater for all
circumstances. If, as will be the case with OpenOffice, there are
already shortcuts in the All Programs menu, those can be used as a
source for creating desktop shortcuts more easily and more reliably
than by burrowing down for the executables themselves.
Brian Barker
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