[Athen] downloading Open Office (Writer only)!
Erin Lauridsen
erinlau at umich.edu
Mon Aug 18 06:27:07 PDT 2014
Depending on the feature set you need, I've had good luck with the
Word Processor Jaarte for basic writing and editing.
Erin
On 8/18/14, Robin Bloomfield <Robin.Bloomfield at d2l.com> wrote:
> Dear Norm et al,
>
> Perhaps portable apps would be a good solution:
> http://portableapps.com/apps/office. You could install it on a usb stick and
> plugin it into the netbook when needed, if that would match your needs.
>
> You could use a portable version of Open Office or Libre Office
> (http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable).
>
> If you are considered at taking up space on the hard drive. There are also
> other portable basic Word Processors available
> (http://portableapps.com/apps/office)
>
>
> Robin Bloomfield
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On
> Behalf Of Wink Harner
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 12:57 AM
> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
> Subject: Re: [Athen] downloading Open Office (Writer only)!
>
> Norm, et al ATHENites
>
> The website for Open Office indicates you cannot download just the Writer,
> but you can achieve a single component install by clicking the download link
> and then selecting CUSTOM INSTALL. From this, choose Writer only. You should
> be good to go. The site I checked doesn't recommend this, though. Let me
> know if you need more info.
>
> Hope this is helpful.
>
> Wink
> Wink Harner
> foreigntype at gmail.com
>
>> On Aug 17, 2014, at 9:25 PM, Prof Norm Coombs <norm.coombs at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> All google seems to find for me is how to download the full Open Office
>> Suite. I want to use Writer on a very small netbook computer running
>> Windows 7. I hope not to fill up the internal drive with the entire open
>> office suite.
>>
>> Does anyone know where I can locate the writer only?
>>
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