Hi Mel,
Thanks for you post and comments. I am getting my head around the techno stuff, so thinking about making a second installation. Does that mean I need to copy the whole website as is locally, then remove woocommerce, then once removed upload this to my domain? Once the woocommerce section is ready to go, I can then replace the domain live site with the complete woocommerce enabled site.
Now I just need to work out how to do that without affecting my current site.
Thanks
Maton72