2008/9/4 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 09/04/2008 01:11 PM, M Henri Day wrote: > > 2008/9/4 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [snip] > >> As for docx; yes it will work. You should have no issues in opening doc > >> or odt/ods/etc files. > > > > > > The problem here is not that which others may have in opening files from > - I > > simply save them in doc format before sending them - but my ability to > open > > files in docx format that others have sent to me. With 2.4.1 installed, > > attachments are opened in the latter by default. What I should like to be > > able to do is to be able to choose to open a docx file I've received as > an > > attachment to an email message in 3-dev instead. I've not yet been able > to > > figure out how to do so, and should be most grateful for any tips you can > > provide.... > > That would be a mime type application association in your browser > settings. In Thunderbird I think (I use SeaMonkey remember) it's > something like: Edit|Preferences|Attachments.
Thanks again, NoOp ! I don't use an email client like Thunderbird to access my email (I do, use it, however, as a sort of backup, in case I suddenly find myself locked out of my Gmail account), but rather prefer to access it directly online. When in Swiftweasel or Firefox, I click on an attachment in docx format to a Gmail message, a box with the following text opens : You have chosen to open ------.docx, which is a : Word 2007 document from : https://mail.google.com What should Swiftweasel/Firefox do with this file ? [Radio button] Open with OpenOffice.org Ordbehandlare [Writer] (default) [arrow] [Radio button] Save file [Box] Do this *a*utomatically for files like this from now on. Plus a «Cancel» and an «OK» button. If I attempt to open the file with the default, it opens in Writer 2.4.1, which sometimes works and sometimes does not (?). What I should like to do is to use the arrow to select Writer in OOo-dev3 as the word processor with which the file is to be opened and make this the default for all files of this type, but try as I might, I've been unable to find a way to do this. Any suggestions ?... Henri PS : I'm shooting for a month !...
