The installation instructions for OOo4Kids say that you can have
OOo4Kids and OOo on the same machine, but only one program will get the
"file associations" that enable you to double-click on a document to
open Writer, Calc, or whatever. Presumably we can go whole hog and
install OOo4Kids, OOoLite, OOo, LibO, BrOffice, etc., on one machine,
but only one of these automatically gets the file associations. Each
suite steals all the associations (except for MS Word, Excel and
Powerpoint if you reserved those). Therefore the last one installed
rules the roost.
When you think about it, this is the Right Way for it to work.
ZenWiz's method works, but there are dozens of file types involved, and
you may have to do it over again after an update or upgrade. It is
simpler, and perhaps faster, to re-install the one you want to have the
file associations.
Have fun!
On 2:59 pm, MR ZenWiz wrote:
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Mark Stanton<[email protected]> wrote:
This might be a "thread hijack" (sorry), but I've not been able to
set LO to be my default for opening... Anything at all. Windows (XP
Home) doesn't offer it to me at all, only OO. Yes, I do have both
still installed, but...
Two possible solutions (in Windows Explorer):
1) Right-click on a file of the type you want to move from default OO
to LO, select "Open With" and "Choose Program..." then select LO and
be sure to check the box "Always use this program...."
2) Click "Tools" and "Folder options...", then click on the "File
Types" tab, find your way to the file type(s) you want to change and
set all of them there.
There's also a way to do this from the Control Panel, but I forget that one.
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