Thanks Dave! ok - I just went back to open office to download it. 1.1.3 is now the most stable release. Interesting. I clicked on the link to download, and it actually just started a download and gave me an exe file this time - amazing! LOL none of those lists to choose from - or a zip file! (but it says it will take 50 minutes to download it - so I'll see what happens. Now it says it will take over an hour to download!! It's 45 mb - I don't think it should take that long - it says it's transferring at 10.6 kb/sec. I'm on a cable modem, and downloads usually download really fast) Just before my computer automatically re-booted itself, it popped up and said my connection to the internet wasn't responding in my e-mail. Wondering if they are having a problem. Everything seems to be really slow - even opening web pages. so - If it downloads! - should I just install it - and then you think I can get it to work on all of the screen names, right? Cris ----- Original Message ----- From: David F. Wooledge To: @freelistts PCTechTalk Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 8:51 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: open office - Help on download Cris, go back to the open office org site and get the .exe file for Windows. It will install the program for you. The Intel means an Intel or similar chip. Your athalon chip is ok to use with a file made for Intel chips. A chip from IBM (Power something or other), Sun (SPARC??), Apple ( I think they still use a chip made by Motorola), H-P (like the Alpha chips from the Digital Equipment Corp, that Compaq bought out, that H-P bought out). You want to make it simple; get the .exe file. It might be called a self-extracting installer. Just be sure to get the one for Windows. I like OpenOffice.org. Dave ------------------------------ From: "Cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: open office - Help on download Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 12:55:52 -0400 I was trying to follow the directions they gave on how to install with the command prompt. It said to put the file path in to the exe. That is what didn't work! I unzipped it - there are 503 FILES including an exe file. My file that I downloaded is called: OOo_1.1.2_win32Intel_install.zip now - I just had another thought and question - what does INTEL have to do with this? I don't have an intel chip on here - I have an athalon chip. Does that make a difference? I found another set of directions, in their forums, on how to install it for mulitple users. http://www.edafe.org/openoffice.html#win Cris To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk