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Starting OpenOffice.org Starting OpenOffice.org
Title:
Starting OpenOffice.org
Version:
1.0
First edition: December 2004
First English
edition:
December 2004
Contents
Overview
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Copyright and trademark information
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Feedback
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Acknowledgments
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Modifications and updates
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Starting OOo from the system menu
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Windows
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Linux/GNOME
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Linux/KDE
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Mac
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What does it look like?
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Starting from an existing document
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Using the Quickstarter under Windows
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Using the Quickstarter icon
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Disabling the Quickstarter
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Reactivating the Quickstarter
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Starting from the command line
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Starting OpenOffice.org
i Overview
Overview
This chapter describes four ways to start OpenOffice.org (OOo):
1) From the system menu.
2) From an existing document.
3) Using the Quickstarter under Windows.
4) From the command line.
Copyright and trademark information
The contents of this Documentation are subject to the Public Documentation License,
Version 1.0 (the "License"); you may only use this Documentation if you comply with the
terms of this License. A copy of the License is available at:
http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.rtf
.
The Original Documentation is Starting OpenOffice.org. The Initial Writer(s) of the Original
Documentation is Jean Hollis Weber
© 2004. All Rights Reserved. (Initial Writer contacts:
jeanweber@openoffice.org
. Use the Initial Writer contacts to report errors in the
documentation. For questions regarding how to use the software, subscribe to the Users Mail
List and post your question there:
http://support.openoffice.org/index.html
.)
Contributors: Laurent Duperval Portions created by Laurent Duperval are Copyright © 2004.
All Rights Reserved. (Contributor contact:
lduperval@yahoo.com
.)
All trademarks within this guide belong to legitimate owners.
Feedback
Please direct any comments or suggestions about this document to:
authors@user-faq.openoffice.org.
Acknowledgments
Much of this chapter is taken from Writer Basics by Laurent Duperval (part of the Writer
Guide).
Modifications and updates
Version
Date
Description of Change
1.0
27 Dec 2004
First published edition
Starting OpenOffice.org
ii Starting OOo from the system menu
Starting OOo from the system menu
Using the system menu is the most common way to launch Writer. The system menu is the
standard menu from which most applications are started. On Windows, it is called the Start
menu. On GNOME, it is called the Applications menu. On KDE it is identified by the KDE
logo. On Mac OS X, it is the Applications menu.
When you installed OpenOffice.org, a menu entry was added to your system menu. The exact
name and location of this menu entry will depend on your graphical environment. We will
look at Windows, GNOME, KDE and Mac OS X. The concepts should easily be applicable
to another operating system.
Windows
On Windows, the OpenOffice.org menu is located in Programs > OpenOffice.org 1.1.X,
where 1.1.X corresponds to the version number of OpenOffice.org. Select Text Document
to start Writer with a blank document. See Figure 1.
Figure 1. Starting OpenOffice.org Writer from the Windows Start menu.
Starting OpenOffice.org
1 Starting OOo from the system menu
Linux/GNOME
GNOME installations will differ from one distribution to the next. Most modern distributions
come with OpenOffice.org already installed. You will find OpenOffice.org under
Applications > Office. See Figure 2.
Figure 2: Writer in Office menu
Red Hat 9 comes with OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 installed. On the GNOME desktop, you will find
this version under Red Hat's Main Menu > Office. If you have installed a newer version of
OpenOffice.org, you will find it under Main Menu > Office > More Office Applications.
If you installed by downloading from the
http://www.openoffice.org
site, you will find it
under Applications > Other. See Figure 3.
Starting OpenOffice.org
2 Starting OOo from the system menu
Figure 3: Writer from the Application > Other menu.
Linux/KDE
On KDE, OpenOffice.org is installed in its own menu, called OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 (see
Figure 4). If you are using a different version, then 1.1.1 will be replaced with the correct
version number.
Figure 4: KDE menu for OpenOffice.org
Starting OpenOffice.org
3 Starting OOo from the system menu
Certain Linux distributions install OpenOffice.org in the Office sub-menu. Mandrake is such
a distribution. In this case, to launch Writer, you will need to choose Office > Word
processors > OpenOffice.org Writer. Figure 5 illustrates this.
Figure 5: OpenOffice.org from Mandrake's KDE menu.
Mac
OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 on OS X 10.3 or later installs the OpenOffice.org1.1.x folder in
Applications (see Figure 6). From within this folder, either double-click the Begin_OOorg
icon, or drag the icon to the Dock and single-click it. Apple's X11 will launch, followed by
OpenOffice.org.
Figure 6: Start Writer from the Applications menu
Starting OpenOffice.org
4 Starting OOo from the system menu
What does it look like?
Figure 7: Empty desktop after starting Writer.
After you have successfully launched OpenOffice.org, you will either have an empty desktop
like the one in Figure 7, or you will have a blank document into which you can type
immediately.
Starting from an existing document
You can start OpenOffice.org automatically simply by double-clicking the filename of an
OOo document in your favorite file manager. The appropriate component of OOo will start
and the document will be loaded.
On Mac, double-clicking an OpenOffice.org icon will launch X11 and OpenOffice.org. The
document will be loaded.
Starting OpenOffice.org
5 Using the Quickstarter under Windows
Using the Quickstarter under Windows
The Quickstarter is an icon that is placed in the Windows system tray during system startup.
It indicates that OpenOffice.org has been loaded and is ready to use.
If you do not want OpenOffice.org to load automatically, you can disable it, as described in
Disabling the Quickstarter.
Using the Quickstarter icon
Right-click the Quickstarter icon in the system tray to open a popup menu from which you
can open a new document, open the Templates and Documents dialog, or choose an existing
document to open. (See Figure 8.) You can also double-click the Quickstarter icon to display
the Templates and Documents dialog.
Figure 8. Quickstarter popup menu
Disabling the Quickstarter
To close the Quickstarter, click Exit Quickstarter on the popup menu. The next time you
restart your computer, the Quickstarter will be loaded again.
To prevent OpenOffice.org from loading during system startup, deselect the Load
OpenOffice.org During System Start-Up item on the popup menu. You might want to do
this if your computer has insufficient memory, for example.
Reactivating the Quickstarter
If the Quickstarter has been disabled, you can reactivate it in these ways: Select the Load OpenOffice.org during system start-up checkbox in Tools > Options
> OpenOffice.org > Memory. Activate the Quickstarter without restarting the system, by running the program
quickstart.exe in the directory {installpath}\program.
Starting OpenOffice.org
6 Starting from the command line
Starting from the command line
You may want to start OOo from the command line, because you have more control over
what h