OpenOffice Portable

I was wondering if OpenOffice always stores its settings in INI file/s and that's why you can make it portable?

Also, if it's portable, why must I install anything at all? I'd expect it to be plug and play...

Thanks!

I know this may sound like a contradiction in terms, but I would like to be able to run OOo Portable on a multiuser winxp pro sp2 PC. I use portable apps a lot to simplify software upgrades on a pool of like PCs, as well as on several USB sticks. The former setup involves multiuser support.
Is this possible and how?
My experiments so far yield several problems, some of which may be unrelated to multiuser support, actually.

(in the following description, I use the term "log in" to indicate logging on via the fast user switching winxp facility)

1. User A logs in and doesn't run OOoP, then user B also logs in and runs OOoP. OOo Writer seems to hang, I have to kill it with task manager. OOo Draw works OK, but it seems to hang when clicking on the T tool (text). Pasting text directly from the clipboard works OK.

I noticed in the OOo Portable FAQ page:

"Portable Apps Suite Upgrades: A new version of the suite that contains this new OpenOffice.org Portable version is coming in the next week."

I guess the "next week" part is obsolete.

I am delighted with the portable version. I have been experimenting and wonder if i've found a bug?

When using tables one can get sides of a cell without a hitch. But when one wants to have sides of different thickesses it doesn't seem to do it. Neither for that matter does Abiword. I tried both - then compared with WordPro and Word.

Suggestions anyone!

james[uk]

Is it possible to change the "my document" path to a folder on my USB-drive?
Thanks for your great work,
Ralf

The latest version of OOo is out!!!

Hi,
I'm about to download OpenOffice, and I notice that the U3 version is 230mb and the portable just 65mb.

Are those two different distributions (the U3 being a fuller version and the portable is based on a smaller one?), or is it something concerning U3?

Thanks,
Walter

OO 2.04 RC 2 is out. Will we see a Portable version soon?

Hello,

I need to set my Java Classpath. Further on I would like to be able to choose one specific JDK/JRE and keep it for all application startups.

As OpenOffice Portable automatically overwrites the Java configuration my settings get overwritten. It would be nice to be able to switch this feature off.

Kind regards

Bastian

Hello everybody do sombody has the portable version of OpenOffice in spanish or do you know how to install the spanish version in the Portable OOo?
Thanx a lot I'll appreciate your help.