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I've tried installing OpenOffice, but I'm not sure how best to get started with it - it seems to be freezing for a bit when I click on the icon.

Is textedit part of it?

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 06:41:55 AM EST
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I believe Open Office comes packaged with a bunch of X11 applications. Textedit might be one of them.

It takes a while to open Open Office on my MacBook - you have to realise that "office productivity" software is inevitably bloatware. When I need to write a letter I use TeX. It runs way faster, looks prettier and produces smaller files.

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 06:49:36 AM EST
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Perhaps I'm being too impatient then, since everything else is so quick.

the X11 box thing comes up and the textedit but none of the others. Off for the weekend soon so I'll try again when I'm back.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 07:17:35 AM EST
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Textedit is a standard Mac OS X app. Your Staroffice isn't working right.

I gave up on it: I use Pages generally, and I have a copy of Office '07 for emergencies.

I wouldn't bother buying Office unless I was actually having problems on a regular basis.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 07:22:53 AM EST
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