Welcome

OpenOffice.org 2.0 ReadMe

For latest updates to this readme file, see
http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/readme.html

Dear User

This file contains important information about this program. Please read this
information very carefully before starting work.

The OpenOffice.org Community, responsible for the development of this product,

would like to invite you to participate as a community member. As a new user, you
can check out the OpenOffice.org site with helpful user information at

http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/introduction.html

Also read the sections below about getting involved in the OpenOffice.org project.

Notes on Installation
System Requirements:

Microsoft Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP

Pentium compatible PC
128 MB RAM (256 MB RAM recommended)
320 MB (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean versions: 350 MB, multi-language
version: 500 MB) available hard disk space
800x600 resolution or higher, at least 256 colors

Note: Please be aware that administrator rights are needed for the installation
process.
Note for Windows 98 users only: If you choose to install Java during the
OpenOffice.org installation program, the installer will ask you to reboot your
system. You should either ignore this message or open the OpenOffice.org
installation program again after the reboot.

Difficulties starting OpenOffice.org (e.g. applications hang) as well as problems

with the screen display are often caused by the graphics card driver. If these
problems occur, please update your graphics card driver or try using the graphics
driver delivered with your operating system. Difficulties displaying 3D objects can
often be solved by deactivating the option "Use OpenGL" under 'Tools - Options -
View - 3D view'.

You can install OpenOffice.org 2.0 alongside of an older version of OpenOffice.org.

If you later choose to deinstall the older version of OpenOffice.org, you must call
the installation program of the newer version and choose 'Repair'. This ensures that
the new version is correctly registered in your system.
Please note that copy and paste via clipboard between OpenOffice.org 1.x and
OpenOffice.org 2.0 might not work in OpenOffice.org format. If that happens,
choose 'Edit - Paste Special' and choose a format other than OpenOffice.org, or
open the document in OpenOffice.org 2.0 directly.

Please make sure you have enough free memory in the temporary directory on your
system and that read, write and run access rights have been granted. Close all other
programs before starting the installation.

Network Installation: Error When Calling the

OpenOffice.org Quickstarter
If, when starting the system, problems should occur in calling the OpenOffice.org
Quickstarter (e.g. invalid link), this is probably due to the fact that the network drive
on which the network installation is installed is not yet available.

In most cases, this happens when the network drives are logged in via a login script,
thereby establishing the connection for the network drives parallel to running the
programs of the autostart group from which the Quickstarter is also started.

To avoid this problem, the network drive should be connected via the system's
services. If this is not possible, the link used to call the Quickstarter can be removed
from the autostart group of the system, or the Quickstarter can already be disabled
when installing the workstation installation. If the system administrator already
disabled the Quickstarter during installation of the network installation, then the
Quickstarter cannot be selected by the user in a later workstation installation.

ALPS/Synaptics notebook touchpads in Windows

Due to a Windows driver issue, you cannot scroll through OpenOffice.org
documents when you slide your finger across an ALPS/Synaptics touchpad.

To enable touchpad scrolling, add the following lines to the "C:\Program

Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.ini" configuration file, and restart your computer:

[OpenOffice.org]FC = "SALFRAME"SF = 0x10000000SF |= 0x00004000

Note: The location of the configuration file might vary on different versions of
Windows.

Ai Squared ZoomText 7.11

If you want to use Ai Squared ZoomText with OpenOffice.org 2.0 , you need
version 7.11 or higher. The date of the Ai Squared ZoomText download must be
after June 12, 2002 for it to contain all the necessary program enhancements.

Changing the User Interface Font

In OpenOffice.org you can change the font used for screen display and printing by
replacing it with a different font installed on your system. This can be done using
the font replacement function. Choose 'Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - Fonts' to
access the font replacement table.

To change the font of the OpenOffice.org user interface, you have to replace the
default font "Andale Sans UI" with another font and mark the "always" setting for
this replacement.

Refer to the OpenOffice.org Help for a detailed explanation of the dialog.

Shortcut Keys
Only shortcut keys (key combinations) not used by the operating system can be
used in OpenOffice.org. If a key combination in OpenOffice.org does not work as
described in the OpenOffice.org Help, check if that shortcut is already used by the
operating system. To rectify such conflicts, you can change the keys assigned by
your operating system. Alternatively, you can change almost any key assignment in
OpenOffice.org. For more information on this topic, refer to the OpenOffice.org
Help or the Help documentation of your operating system.

Problems When Sending Documents as E-mails

From OpenOffice.org
When sending a document via 'File - Send - Document as E-mail' or 'Document as
PDF Attachment' problems might occur (program crashes or hangs). This is due to
the Windows system file "Mapi" (Messaging Application Programming Interface)
which causes problems in some file versions. Unfortunately, the problem cannot be
narrowed down to a certain version number. For more information visit
http://www.microsoft.com to search the Microsoft Knowledge Base for "mapi dll".

Used / Modified Source Code

Portions Copyright 1998, 1999 James Clark. Portions Copyright 1996, 1998
Netscape Communications Corporation.

Getting Involved
The OpenOffice.org Community would very much benefit from your active
participation in the development of this important open source project.

As a user, you are already a valuable part of the suite's development process and we
would like to encourage you to take an even more active role with a view to being a
long-term contributor to the community. Please join and check out the user page at:
http://www.openoffice.org

Registration
Please take a little time to complete the minimal Product Registration process when
you install the software. While registration is optional, we encourage you to register,
since the information enables the community to make an even better software suite
and address user needs directly. Through its Privacy Policy, the OpenOffice.org
Community takes every precaution to safeguard your personal data. If you missed
the registration at installation, you can return and register at any time at
http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/registration20.html

User Survey
There is also a User Survey located online which we encourage you to fill out. The
User Survey results will help OpenOffice.org move more rapidly in setting new
standards for the creation of the next-generation office suite. Through its Privacy
Policy, the OpenOffice.org Community takes every precaution to safeguard your
personal data.

Report Bugs & Issues

The OpenOffice.org Web site hosts IssueZilla, our mechanism for reporting,
tracking and solving bugs and issues. We encourage all users to feel entitled and
welcome to report issues that may arise on your particular platform. Energetic
reporting of issues is one of the most important contributions that the user
community can make to the ongoing development and improvement of the suite.

Subscribe
Here are a few of the Project mailing lists to which you can subscribe at
http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html

News: announce@openoffice.org *recommended to all users* (light traffic)

User support: users@openoffice.org *recommended to new users* (heavy
traffic)
Main user forum: discuss@openoffice.org *easy way to lurk on discussions*
(heavy)
Marketing project: dev@marketing.openoffice.org *beyond development*
(getting heavy)
General code contributor list: dev@openoffice.org (moderate/heavy)

Join one or more Projects

You can make major contributions to this important open source project even if you
have limited software design or coding experience. Yes, you!

At http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html you will find projects ranging from

Localization, Porting and Groupware to some real core coding projects. If you are
not a developer, try the Documentation or the Marketing Project. The
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project is applying both guerrilla and traditional
commercial techniques to marketing open source software, and we are doing it
across language and cultural barriers, so you can help just by spreading the word
and telling a friend about this office suite.

You can help by joining the Marketing Communications & Information Network
here: http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html where you can provide point
communication contact with press, media, government agencies, consultants,
schools, Linux Users Groups and developers in your country and local community.

User Support
For help with the OpenOffice.org 2.0 office suite, take a look at the archives to find
questions already answered on the 'users@openoffice.org' mailing list at
http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html. Alternatively, you can send in your
questions to users@openoffice.org. Remember to subscribe to the list to get an
email response.

Also check the FAQ section at http://user-faq.openoffice.org/.

Way to Start
The best way to start contributing is to subscribe to one or more of the mailing lists,
lurk for a while, and gradually use the mail archives to familiarize yourself with
many of the topics covered since the OpenOffice.org source code was released back
in October 2000. When you're comfortable, all you need to do is send an email self-
introduction and jump right in. If you are familiar with Open Source Projects, check
out our To-Dos list and see if there is anything you would like to help with at
http://development.openoffice.org/todo.html.

We hope you enjoy working with the new OpenOffice.org 2.0 and will join us
online.

The OpenOffice.org Community