Thanks all very much. Your answers omit to say you should log-in first before the DOWNLOAD may start.
Jeff Gordon On 14 January 2015 at 17:52, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: > When you start at <http://openoffice.org> and get to the page, > <http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html>, make sure the settings > there are appropriate for your computer. > > After you click "Download full > installation" DO NOT CLICK ANYTHING MORE. There are ads on the next > page that invite your downloading of other software, and they are > confusing. DON'T TOUCH THOSE. > > What you want to read is in the fine print near the Apache OpenOffice > symbol and title. If you just wait, the download will start and you > will be asked what to do with it (depending on the browser and computer > you are using). If the download does not just start after a brief time, > follow the barely visible "Problems with the download? ..." message. > > The embarrassing icky-ness of the advertising-based download buttons in > various guises is something that we seem unable to explain to the Source- > Forge folks. It is all quite smarmy and an ugly example of the mercantile > spirit that was once confined to matchbook covers and the back pages of > comic books. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Gordon [mailto:jeffando...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 07:41 > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Trying to update, I have 4.1.0 and I am trying to download 4.1.1 > > EVERY time I click on the DOWNLOAD button I am taken to the site FREE FILE > OPENER. > > All I am trying to do is download the update. > > -- > Jeff Gordon > > -- Jeff and Olga Gordon
