Hello Dennis, I opened the file directly, it pulled up LibreOffice, I was told it was locked for editing by Unknown User, I canceled, tried it again and got the same result.
Any other suggestions you could offer I'd really appreciate. Thank you! Jeff Deutsch Speaker & Life Coach A SPLINT - ASPies LInking with NTs http://www.asplint.com On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]
