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Background:
I belong to a "Learning in Retirement" organization, the members of which need to occasionally send me a Microsoft Word Template. (I have a Wintel clone and use both MS Word and Corel Word Perfect, preferring the latter.)
Some of our members have Macs, with a variety of software, some of which is not able to handle the Word Template. On these machines I downloaded and installed Open Office.
Because some of our members have difficulty in using the "Save As" dropdown to send me a properly formatted file, I decided to install OpenOffice on my machine, so that I could open their attachments.
All went well until I rebooted after my install.
Unexpected Consequences
The icons for the few files I have on my desktop changed to the Open Office Icon.
More troublesome: When I click on a Word or Excel e-mail attachment, instead of opening, as it used to, in MSWord or Excel, now OpenOffice opens and opens the attachment. My dial-up modem is slow enough as it is and this just adds more delay in doing my stuff.
I have spent some time looking in StartUp and Win.ini in MSConfig to see if I could figure out what was going on, but no luck. I really want to use OpenOffice when I need it, especially the "export PDF" function, which is really cool, but don't want to live with the other situation. I can always uninstall OO, but would prefer not to.
Can anyone tell me how to not have OpenOffice as my default?
Thanks,
Paul Dickey
Philomath, OR
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