OK. That works. But it's kind of a back-handed approach. What I was trying
to do was to double-click on an xlsx document itself, right click on "open
with" and have it open with OO. It really SHOULD since I have both MS Office
and OO installed. But for some reason, my system doesn't seem to recognize
that OO is installed.
For the record ... I was selling mainframes to the largest corporations in
the world and managing project management teams world-wide a long time ago
(possibly before you were born - no slight intended). I really do know how
to do problem determination. I have spent hours and I just can't figure out
why this won't work without having to start OO first. I have at least a
dozen options. It's just that OO isn't one of them. It's almost as though it
didn't get into the registry properly.
I'll work on this some more when I get a chance.
Thanks for your help.
-----Original Message-----
From: James Knott
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 1:00 PM
To: users@openoffice.apache.org ; Richard Fox
Subject: Re: Question re/ using Open Office
That doesn't make sense. If you can open OpenOffice, then you should be
able to open MS Office files. Is it in fact installed? Can you
actually open the program by clicking on it's icon? When you're trying
to solve a problem, keep things simple to eliminate other issues. So:
1) Click on an OpenOffice icon.
2) When it opens, use File>Open etc. to find and open a document.
If you can't do that, then you've got some problem that needs to be
resolved.
On 06/25/2015 11:57 AM, Richard Fox wrote:
Doesn't seem to work. No matter how I try to open an xlsx file (Office
2010) I can't seem to get an OO option.
This PS is running Win 8.1. I have both Office 2010 and OO running so
that I can test portability. I'm also using File Center for file
management. I thought that might be the problem since it's in the
middle of everything, but that's not the problem. I've tested with the
files in Explorer and I still can't select OO to open. I have another
PC that's running Win 7 but I don't have OO installed on it.
-----Original Message----- From: James Knott
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 7:09 AM
To: users@openoffice.apache.org ; Richard Fox
Subject: Re: Question re/ using Open Office
On 06/25/2015 09:26 AM, Richard Fox wrote:
Thanks for the information. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work
as you described.
I have both MS Office and OO installed (for testing), and when I right
click on "open with" I get about a dozen options but OO isn't one of
them.
Can you open OO first and then open the file with it? It's unusual that
you can't find OO when you use open with. I assume you're running
Windows.
Richard Fox
rafo...@outlook.com
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