Regina, thank you very much. Details follow.
On 5/22/2012 9:12 AM, Regina Henschel wrote:
Hi Dennis,
Dennis E. Hamilton schrieb:
@James,
I see. It happens that Windows XP will not let you assign a
different program of the same name to be associated with the same
file extension via Open With
@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: File associations - LibreOffice and
OpenOffice on Windows 7
James Knott wrote:
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
[ ... ]
I think you already know how to do this, by using the Open With ...
context-menu and take the Choose Default Program option. You'll
Regina Henschel wrote
I have both LibreOffice Writer and OpenOffice Writer in the Open With...
list. Why do you think, that it is not possible?
It is possible. But the order in which you install one or the other
sometimes affects the final result.
And sometimes when you try to add an
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
You can try to add AOO associations manually, but it might not be effective.
The problem is that LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, and Apache OpenOffice all use the
same (old Star Office) names for the individual application programs. Even if you
succeed in having
James Knott wrote:
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
You can try to add AOO associations manually, but it might not be
effective.
The problem is that LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, and Apache
OpenOffice all use the same (old Star Office) names for the
individual application programs. Even if you
the choose program dialog will allow a shortcut to be
used. That's an interesting idea though.
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From: James Knott [mailto:james.kn...@rogers.com]
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 14:25
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: File associations
be.
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From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org]
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 14:39
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: File associations - LibreOffice and
OpenOffice on Windows 7
What I discovered in the Vista VM was that the icons
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
I don't know whether the choose program dialog will allow a shortcut to be
used. That's an interesting idea though.
Apparently not. So, that leaves either using OpenOffice or renaming the
individual apps. In Linux it'd be easy to just create a link with a
