Well, at least we know OO is working. Someone else mentioned a way to get OO added in, if it doesn't show with "open with".
On 06/25/2015 08:29 PM, Richard Fox wrote: > 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 bought my first computer in 1976, an IMSAI 8080, worked for several years as a computer technician maintaining mini-computers, DEC VAX 11/780, a few different PR1ME and Data General models, along with a Collins C8500 (a mil spec version of the IBM 360) system running the Air Canada reservation system and also 3rd level support at IBM Canada, where I worked on OS/2, Windows 95, NT & XP and several applications. I also have considerable experience with Linux and am a Cisco CCNA. I have also completed several computer science courses. In short, my experience with computers goes back to the mid '70s or even a few years earlier, if you count a FORTRAN class I took in high school. As someone who worked with computers, you should know you have to provide details, what you're running, what works, what doesn't etc.. You shouldn't leave us guessing as to where the problem might be. > > 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. > Given my experience with Windows, I wouldn't be surprised if a re-install was necessary. > 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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> > > > Richard Fox > rafo...@outlook.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
