Hi everybody, My thanks to MadMonk and Chip Dunning for their helpful comments, copied below with my replies where relevant.
MadMonk wrote:- " ... ... it no longer recognised my default (and only) printer until I went back and made it the default again ... ... " > Does it then remain the default? If so - problem solved. If not - > where are you selecting the default printer and how? Changing it in the > Control Panel|Printers dialogue should make and keep it as the default > for all programs. You can then select other printers in any program's > print dialogue, but for that document only. Yes, it then remains the default, but that does not solve the problem; the problem is losing it in the first place, at some point during my OOo experiments. > It sounds like you're trying to open .pdf files with OpenOffice. It's > not designed for that. It can save formatted documents to .pdf and > print as .pdf, but not open or edit them. I don't know what the icon > is, but right-clicking and selecting "Properties" might give you a clue. No, I was intending them to open with Reader6 (on my system for some time), but it's association with pdf files vanished about the same time as my default printer! Clicking on that little icon (either right or left) didn't do anything, by the way. > Roger, I hope you'll stick with Ooo a while longer. If my suggestions > don't help, I'm sure there are others here who will have more ideas. > > HTH, > MM The point here is that while trying out OOo, several things that used to work suddenly stopped working, and it took me some time and effort to get them back to normal. It isn't necessarily OOo as such: it may well be one of my other programs having some kind of allergic reaction to OOo! However, it is simply easier to stick with what was working before, than to instal OOo and then have a major problem getting it all working again. Chip Dunning wrote: > This might be specific to the way Windows ME handles things > - meaning poorly. The reason is that I am running OOo on both a > Win2k box and XP laptop with Roxio and it shows no signs of what > is discussed below. > Now, I don't have Lotus SmartSuite on my box, so it might actually > be some combination of OOo and Lotus; although personally I would > probably suspect WinME ... Agreed, I suspect that it is some combination causing the trouble, rather than any one singly, but I can't afford the time and effort it would take to find out. > I believe the icon you are describing is the icon that > Windows uses as the placeholder for any type that it doesn't > understand ... Sounds very likely! > What might have happened is if Lotus can open PDF > docs (not sure about this). It can, in fact; it includes Reader3 (I think), but I have had Reader6 a long time, and always use that. Neither 3 nor 6 worked this time thought! > When OOo was installed (which cannot) the link for > .pdf type was broken ... Exactly; and that is also what caused the problem with the Roxio User Guide files. The problem disappeared after I uninstalled OOo, and reinstalled Reader6. In fact, I have since been able to access the OOo User Guide pdf file for the first time. Now I can study it at leisure, and then make a more informed decision on whether to have another try at OOo.1.1.4, or wait until OOo2 comes out. I sha'n't decide in a hurry, though, Thanks again, and regards Roger. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
