Carol,

O.O. can be purchased on a CD.  Try an eBay search. Should cost between $5
and $10. This is much easier than downloading. Be sure to buy O.O. Version
1.1.5 or 1.1.0. They are stable but Version 2 is out and has better
features than V1.

John

At 09:06 AM 9/24/2005, you wrote:
>I followed the advice of many here and downloaded Open Office, in an attempt
>to see if I could then read my thousands of documents that evidently have
>became corrupted and not able to open, because of having used Word Viewer on
>my old Win98SE system, to read others' documents sent to me..  It took about
>an hour+ to download O.O.   It's a zipped file and I recently installed Just
>Zip It, which I've never had before.  (Someone here recommended it over
>Winzip, which I never liked, so thought I'd try it.)  Just Zip It unzipped
>it, I guess - another icon appeared for O.O.  that contained the word
>'install', so I clicked on it and got the message that it is corrupted.
>Before I spend another hour+, (will probably be a lot longer during the
>day),  downloading O.O., I decided to ask here if there is a possibility
>Just Zip It did something to corrupt the file.  Would I be better off to
>uninstall it and get Winzip before I download O.O.?  Or, should I use some
>other source for O.O?
>
>I ask, because in the past when I have downloaded things and they say
>they're corrupted, it never seems to help to just download them again, and
>this is too lengthy a process, and I need my documents back too badly, to
>just get into a 'continuous loop' so to speak.
>Thanks for any clues anyone can provide.
>Carol Hanson
>
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