With OpenOffice.org installed, and using Gnome, OOo is set as the default application for .DOC (Microsoft Word) files. However, there is no default application for .XLS (Microsoft Excel) files.
Thus clicking on the icon from Nautilus opens up OOo automatically for the Word file, but pops up the usual 'no installed viewer' for the Excel file. This is inconsistent, particularly when Word and Excel files tend to turn up together and the Excel file appears in Nautilus as a blank icon whereas the Word file appears as a document icon. I don't have a .PPT (Microsoft Powerpoint) file to hand to test its default application, but it should be checked as well. Alastair
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