[ale] OpenOffice Expertise sought

[Brian Stanaland]

I've used the PortableApps setup before. It's very good and I didn't
have any problems going between various XP and Vista systems. And,
when plugged in to Solaris, it saw it as a drive so I could copy files
on and off with no problems.

http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable


On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> tom wrote:
>> I'm starting a new gig (Yeah!), and promptly ran into a challenge. I'm
>> using OpenOffice because in theory I can run that between the employer's
>> MS Word and my own linux systems, and I've run into two places of
>> ignorance.
>>
>> First - and probably more crucial for me right now - I need the ability to
>> put a superscript and subscript one over the other (Its chemisty in case
>> that helps). I haven't chased down how to do this as an inline graphic or
>> math formula yet, but I'd really like to be able to just type it straight
>> off as text. Ideas?? Clues? Tossed Bricks?
>
> RTFM, I simply searched for subscript from OO help:
>
> Press Ctrl+Shift+P to make the text superscript, and Ctrl+Shift+B to
> make the text subscript.
>
> Not pretty, but it works.
>
>>
>> Second - I'd like to install OpenOffice.org to a thumb drive such that I
>> can use it on one of several XP and Vista machines available to me at
>> work. This might not work if the IT people have properly locked up the
>> machines, but I figure I might as well find out how to do it. (They have
>> locked up the network so I cann't ssh home and convert stuff to a word
>> format there. Clever bastards, but they have students to deal with.)
>
> Haven't done it, so I don't know if it's possible.
>
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
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