How To Use StarOffice

StarOffice is a suite of office productivity tools including word processing, spreadsheet and presentation tools. It has not been put to much use yet in the cs department, and was originally installed to provide a way to view microsoft formatted documents received through the mail.

1. To use StarOffice, first you must install the workstation version locally in you home directory. So, log into a workstation using your account, from a terminal window cd /usr/local/Office51/bin, then run ./setup. Install the workstation version in your home directory (about 2.5 MB). This puts a bunch of stuff in /home/user_name/Office51, including a symlink /home/user_name/Office51/bin/soffice, which is the command to use to start up StarOffice. You can either cd to the bin directory and run ./soffice, or add the bin directory to your path (for example, add the line set path=($path /home/user_name/Office51/bin) to your .cshrc file).
2. To use StarOffice to view microsoft formatted attachments in your mail program, add this line to your .mailcap file: application/MSWORD; /home/user_name/Office51/bin/soffice %s

Notes:

For more information on using StarOffice, refer to the on-line help.

If you have problems with StarOffice try OpenOffice instead.

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