Darren Foster Computer Services

After celebrating OpenOffices tenth birthday last month I though it was high time I wrote a guide to installing OpenOffice on your PC. Contrary to popular belief there are many options when it comes to office software. OpenOffice is just one of them. So lets get started….

The OpenOffice website is well written and easy to navigate. Take a look for yourself at www.openoffice.org

To begin with you will need to download OpenOffice onto your machine from here…….

In Google Chrome you should see something like this in the bottom left of your browser.

Click on the Save button and it will start downloading, You will notice it counting down whilst it downloads the full 144MB of the program onto your PC. Once its complete and there are no more minutes left on the countdown. You should see something like this…..

Ok so now double click the box in your browser like the one in the picture above and this will start the install. Once double clicked you should get something like this.

OK so lets click the Next Button….. You should get this next.

OK the box is asking us to unpack OpenOffice into a saved folder. Click on Unpack… You should get this next.

Ok so now the box is telling us that its going to install OpenOffice onto our PC so just click next to continue. You should see something like this next.

So fill in the details into the Username box and if its a work computer put your company name in the organisation box. Then click next to continue. You should see this.

Now make sure Complete install is selected and then click Next. You should see this.

Ok so the box is telling up that the installation wizard is ready to install now. So make sure the Create a start link on the desktop is ticked like in the image above. This way when you want to write a Letter you dont have to go through the Start menu you can just click on an icon on the desktop. Then Click Install. You should notice Jave updating and then the actual OpenOffice install commence. This may take a few minutes. Once all is done you should see something like this.

Click on the Finish button to Exit the installation wizard. Have a little look at your desktop now and see if you can find the OpenOffice icon. It looks like this…..

Double click the icon and you should get something like this…

Obviously the choice is yours but I choose not to register. So select I do not want to register and click OK. You should see this….

This is your welcome screen. Sorry its a little small but WordPress the bit that makes my website happen wouldn’t allow me to make it bigger. If you click on the image it should take you to a full size image then click the back button to come back here.

So this is your Installation of OpenOffice Completed

Thanks for Listening and i Look forward to your comments.

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