---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Paul Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 11:06:01 -0700
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Received: from 64.4.61.210 by by102fd.bay102.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; > Wed, 11 May 2005 02:19:19 GMT >X-Originating-IP: [64.4.61.210] >X-Originating-Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "Paul Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Unexpected Consequences >Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 19:19:19 -0700 >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/html; format=flowed >X-Stn-Info: > ><html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE><FONT size=2> ><P>Good day to all of you, </P><U> ><P>Background:</U> </P> ><P>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.) </P> ><P>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. </P> ><P>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. </P> ><P>All went well until I rebooted after my install. </P><U> ><P>Unexpected Consequences</U> </P> ><P>The icons for the few files I have on my desktop changed to the Open Office Icon. </P> ><P>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. </P> ><P>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. </P> ><P>Can anyone tell me how to not have OpenOffice as my default? </P> ><P>Thanks, </P> ><P>Paul Dickey </P> ><P>Philomath, OR </P> This is probably the #1 complaint about OOo installations, but if the developers changed it the complaint would be "hey I just installed OOo and it doesn't open my Word files!". The FAQ has a description of what happened and detailed instructions for fixing it: http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/ar01s04.html#id2811427. -------------------- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services http://www.wescottdesign.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
