Dear Howard Depending on your OS, right click on a file which you would like to be opened with MS Office and and select "open with" then choose the program and select "always open with this program"....This should work with all your default office files
HTH On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:44:47 -0000, Howard Ogden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > I've just purchased a new PC with OpenOffice installed. Quite a few of my > files from my last pc are Office 2000 and have passwords. I would like > Microsoft office to be the default programme for opening these. However when > I click on any of these files the default programme is OpenOffice. Whilst I > like Open Office I would like Microsoft Office to be the default software. > How do I arrange this without uninstalling OpenOffice? (I am aware that I can > open any of these files from within Office 2000 this is a more long winded > operation.) A further complication is that having imported my old files they > appear with an OpenOffice icon rether than Excel or Word. > I hope you can offer some advice. > > Many thanks > > Howard Ogden > > -- Stephen Forster --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
