[pchelpers] Re: can open office be installed to an external drive?

Hi Re-Na,

Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 2:59:47 PM, you wrote:

GRH> I attempted to download and install Open Office to an external hard drive.
GRH> It still copied somethings to my C: drive on the computer.  So I moved
GRH> that over to the external drive E:
GRH> It said it could not copy everything.

GRH> Has anyone had success installing Open Office and running it on an 
GRH> external drive?  (My laptop is full and I want to test some things out
GRH> in it and use the external drive that I have.  There's lots of space 
GRH> left in my external drive, so space is not a problem.

http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable

Note that you will not be able to double-click on your documents to
open then. As an alternative, you can select the option to do a custom
install of the regular version of OpenOffice, and tell it to install
to the external drive.


-- 
Scott.



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