When you installed OpenOffice.org, it asked you if you wanted to
associate Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files with OpenOffice.org. You
selected these check boxes, so you associated the files. By the way, you
can set the default save option in OpenOffice.org to save as a Word file
automatically, so you don't have to worry about OpenOffice.org at all.
Tim Wescott wrote:
---------- 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]
--
Caleb Marcus
