Right click on a PowerPoint file. Use the Open With ... dialog. If Impress is not there in the list, Clear the Open All the Time with this box. Then go to Choose Default Program and find and choose Impress to open the PPT.
The next time you right click on a PowerPoint file and use Open With... Impress should be there as an option. See if that makes any difference. - Dennis PS: If you always want to open in Impress by default, leave the Open With This from now on checked when you select Impress. You can still use the right click Open With ... to open with PowerPoint when you want. Your choice. -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Deutsch [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 16:40 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Impress files locked for editing Dennis, thank you kindly for your tip. Problem is, I save my presentations as PowerPoint files, and if I click on the file directly I get PowerPoint itself - which I don't want, I'd *much* rather use Impress. Anthony, thank you very much for your suggestion; Regina gave that to me already and I tried it. It didn't suffice, so I posted again. So, please consider my query still open - any further help anyone can offer would be most appreciated! Jeff Deutsch Speaker & Life Coach A SPLINT - ASPies LInking with NTs http://www.asplint.com On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeff, > > When I get those messages I can usually close the application and open the > document (by double-clicking on it) again immediately; everything tends to be > fine the second time. I almost always open documents by double-clicking on > the file or by selecting from the recent documents list. > > This may be unrelated to your case though. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeffrey Deutsch [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 13:15 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Impress files locked for editing > > Hello again Regina, > > Please, call me Jeff. > > Thank you for pointing me to the quickstarter. I shut it down, and > checked to make sure the lock file is still deleted. However, when I > try the presentation again it's still locked for editing by an unknown > user. > > This presentation is entirely my creation, and has never gone outside > my own computer. In case it wasn't clear from my original post, I've > had to change the file name each time I've edited it - and I'm posting > here precisely because I'm sick and tired of doing that. > > Anyway, as for similar files I suppose the couple of other > presentation files may qualify since in effect they're earlier > versions of this one. Should I delete them? > > I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium. Anything further you or anyone else > can do to help would be most appreciated. > > Thank you again Regina! > > Jeff Deutsch > Speaker & Life Coach > A SPLINT - ASPies LInking with NTs > http://www.asplint.com > > > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Regina Henschel > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Jeffrey, >> >> Jeffrey Deutsch schrieb: >>> >>> Good evening Regina, >>> >>> I closed OpenOffice.org, and deleted the lock file you mentioned. >>> >>> However, now instead of saying the file is locked for editing by me, >>> it says it's locked for editing by "Unknown User". >> >> >> Do you or another person have used this presentation file from somewhere >> else? Or do you have a backup copy of your user data? I guess, that a >> similar file still exists somewhere. >> >> You can try this in addition: Copy the file and rename the copy by your file >> manager. And then use the renamed file. >> >>> >>> What's a quickstarter? >> >> >> You can enable an icon for OpenOffice, which gives you access to new >> documents, on the task bar in Windows. It holds parts of OpenOffice running, >> so it reacts quicker than starting newly. The setting is in Tools > Options >>> OpenOffice.org > Memory. >> >> Kind regards >> Regina >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
