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Installing OpenOffice 2.0?
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Senior User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Washington, DC
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Hey all,
I want to try OpenOffice. I have no idea how to use the terminal, X11, or anything. Anyone know a good resource, or can help explain it to someone used to double-clicking to install?
Thanks,
Brad
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Cambridge UK
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Neo Office is what you want for an easy to use double click application, but it's currently at v1.1.
OpenOffice.org provide an installer for v2.0, but to launch you will have to follow their instructions.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2002
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OpenOffice.org 2.0 on the Mac is still at the release candidate stage so I would wait until it is final before trying it if you have no prior experience of running OpenOffice.org for X11. In any case, I would stick with NeoOffice/J for now which is currently based on OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 - it provides a much better Mac user experience.
However, OpenOffice.org 2.0 does/will come as a Mac-like package that you double click to launch - however it will still run in the X11 environment which means it won't use native fonts, print dialogues etc like NeoOffice/J does. (Instead it converts and duplicates all your fonts into truetype versions and places them within its own package structure upon first launch).
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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I downloaded and tried it out on the weekend. The release is 2.0 RC3.
Drag to Applications, double-click and you're away. It was easier than the X11 versions of OO.org 1.1.x. No extra Cocoa application to make OS X open files within OO.org 2.0. I found no problems during my short test. It looks like a PC application as you would expect but I am impressed. Plus I can now open Access files on my Mac! (Haven't tried it yet though).
Worth a look if you need the extra feature version 2.0 offers over NeoOffice/J but NeoOffice is much more "Mac-like".
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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Whatever your preferences for the user interface (Mac-like versus Windows-like), OpenOffice should be a great choice-when it is past the beta stage. There were issues when they were tweaking it for Linux, and other issues when they prepped it for Windows release, so I suspect that MacOS issues will come up as well. That is not to say that RC3 will be problematic, it's just that I personally would wait for the final product.
And when you get it, you'll like it. 
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Glenn -----
OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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