> >The problem: When using WebCT, a document within the course used to open > >with Wordpad.exe. Since installing OpenOffice the documents that used to > >open with Wordpad.exe now will not open at all. > > > Are you trying to open the document from inside OO, or by > double-clicking the document. Opening OO first is the better way.
On installing OOo, you are offered the option to associate MS Office files with OOo. If you accepted this, the file associations were changed, but not the files themselves. WordPad is usually the default for DOC files if Word is not installed, will not open some DOC files (it cannot handle some of the MS specialty formatting),. If the DOC file association was changed to OOo, it effectively shifted everything, because both Word and WordPad associate to the DOC filetype. WordPad is also used to open text files that are too big for Notepad. So ... Are you (a) clicking on the document in a file manager to open it, and assuming that WordPad will be started; or (b) opening WordPad and then selecting to open the document, from within WordPad? If (a), then you may have a problem with file associations still pointing at OOo, which you say your colleague has now removed, so the chosen associated software is no longer present to open the file. To test this, try right-clocking on the file name and using the "Open With" selections to navigate to forcing WordPad to be the program you open the file with. If this fails or ... if (b), then you may now have a problem with the formatting of the file. WordPad can be choosy about which DOC format files it will handle. If you edited a DOC file in OOo and saved it back, OOo may have created a file whose formatting WordPad doesn't handle. Andy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
