At 21:42 04/02/2009 -0500, Tim Lonly wrote:
Every time a do a new install of OpenOffice.org 2.x and 3.x.x, I
have been asked if I want to have the file associations.
Look in
Tools > Options > Load/Save > Microsoft Office
check if you want to Load or Save MS files with OpenOffice.org If
you want to automatically load MS's files into OOo, the check the
"L" boxes. If you want to save the files in
MS file formats, check the "S" boxes.
It is as easy as that.
I fear not. You seem to be confusing two ideas here - and, sadly,
neither claim is (I believe) correct.
1. Operating system associations cannot be configured from with
OpenOffice once it is installed. (That's not surprising,
really.) Installation of OpenOffice used to offer to associate some
Microsoft Office document file types - at least for
Windows. (Installing 3.0.0 did not offer me this option; I'm not
sure why. Perhaps it was because other associations already
existed. Or just because it detected an earlier installation from
the existence of configuration files. But no matter.)
2. You also talk about choosing to save document files in Microsoft
Office formats, but this default behaviour is controlled elsewhere -
at Tools | Options... | Load/Save | General | Default file format and
ODF settings.
No, the options you mention control something different: whether or
not Microsoft Office *OLE objects* are converted to and from
OpenOffice OLE objects when a Microsoft Office document is opened in
OpenOffice or a document is saved from OpenOffice in a Microsoft Office format.
Brian Barker
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