Open Office for Windows

Using Open Office for Windows

Installing Open Office on Windows

Installation steps:

Step 1: Insert a CD containing Open Office software or alternatively download the file from http://download.openoffice.org

Step 2:Open Windows explorer and copy the "file" Ooo_3.0.0_Win32Intel_install_wJRE_en-US.exe “ from the CD or download file from website link (link as in step 1) to your Desktop.

How to make Open Office as the default program to open Office files on Windows

For e.g. to open a MS Word .doc file in open office by default. If you double click on any '.doc' file from your machine it will open in MS Word as MS Word is set as default option to open that file type. If you want all '.doc' files to open by default in Open Office Writer, follow following steps:

1.Open windows explorer (window+E) and browse to file extension you want to change. 2.Go to file and right

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How do you Password Protect files using OpenOffice?

In openoffice just go to File->save as and tick the save with password option on bottom left corner. It works with .odt files but can not work with .doc files as the algorithm used to password protect those files were proprietary, and cannot be legally used.

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