Spiderman wrote: > James Knott schrieb: >> Spiderman wrote: >>> James Knott schrieb: >>>> Spiderman wrote: >>>>> Hi there, >>>>> I try and try to make writer open odf-files by double click on it >>>>> but it doesn't work. So I tried to make it through open with. Just >>>>> selected writer by going to the openoffice folder and clicking on >>>>> writer in the open with menu. But writer doesn't add to the list of >>>>> the software list in open with. Don't know why. >>>>> Is there any possibility to let it open each time with writer by a >>>>> double click on the odf-file? >>>> It sounds like you don't have file name extensions (.ODT) on your >>>> files, so your operating system doesn't know what to do with those >>>> files. Can you start OpenOffice and then click on File > Open? If >>>> so, the files are good. When you use "Save as", ensure automatic >>>> file name extension is selected. You can also rename those files to >>>> add the .ODT extension. >>>> >>>> >>> There is some bug in openoffice. In the settings you have selected >>> automatically to save text files as .odf but openoffice saves it as >>> .odt. Do I have to understand it? That is very strange. >>> I solved the problem a couple of minutes ago myself. >>> >> >> No, you've got it a bit wrong. ODF specifies the Open Document Format, >> which include ODT for text documents, ODS for spreadsheets etc. You >> should never see a file with the ODF extension, as there's no such >> thing, at least not with OpenOffice. >> >> How did you solve the problem? >> > My problem was that I had a rtf-file in which I have connected some > cells in a spreadsheet to one cell. In the next row I let the five > cells. Each time I opened the rtf-file in both rows I had five cells. > I don't know if the rft-type or openoffice itself make such problems. > So I have done a copy of the file and changed the ending to odf > because I saw in openoffice settings that it is the standard format. I > didn't know I should use odt. > Windows wasn't able to change the open with to swriter. If I selected > it it wasn't appearing in the open with program list. I final could > change it somehow in the file types in windows. > Later I just saved it from a .doc file as a copy with .odt. > I was using rtf-type as a standard for me because I thaught it is a > wide spreaded standard. But now with the spreadsheet problem I will > avoid saving my text files as .rtf. :) > Because OpenOffice 3 is almost released I don't want to fill it as > abug and stop the release. :) But there is some problem with rtf and > making from more cells just one cell. I you save the file and open it > you have still more cells instead of one cell. >
You generally can't just nename a file type and expect things to work, though it may with RTF to DOC. When you have a file with the .ODT extension, an application, such as OpenOffice expects to see a particular file format, which isn't there and will fail as a result. Also, the original concept of RTF was to be for interchange between word processors, Microsoft guaranteed it wouldn't work that way, by making so many changes to it. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
