Installing StarOffice

• Open a new terminal window (Right-Click on background, choose Hosts/This Host
• In the terminal, type soffice
• A graphical window will start, with a welcome message. Click Next.
• A README will show, you can read it if you like. Click Next.
• A License Agreement will show. If you can understand it, you're probably already a laywer! Click Accept.
• A Window requesting user info will start. You may fill in if you like (or not). Click Next.
• The following graphical window will start.
  
  You should choose the default (3.2M).
• A Window will ask for the default directory. You may choose the default. (I like to prefix it with a . (i.e. /home/knickels/.office52) so I don't normally see the directory.
• If the directory does not exist (why would it?!) it'll ask to create it. Say OK.
• Click "Complete" to start installing files.
• The following graphical window will start.
  
  You may choose the default, as shown, and click OK.
• AFter some copying, a warning will start as shown:
  
  Click ok (as if there is another choice!).
• Click to complete installation.
• You may log out or right-click on the background, then choose "Windows/Restart Workspace Manager" to restart the button-bar. You will now have another icon on the front panel, for staroffice: it'll look like this:
  
  
• When you start StarOffice, you'll get an Internet AutoPilot. I clicked ok, then chose to import my "internet" settings from Netscape. I don't use the browser in StarOffice, so I'm not sure if that's necessary.
• OK, now you can start editing stuff.
• If you want to access your Windows Documents (e.g. the Y: drive) see these separate instructions for Sharity (at the bottom of the page). You'll be able to edit DOC or XLS files as shown below!