On 08/03/2009 19:59, Stephen Grant Brown wrote:
Hi All,
I do not want KompoZer, I do not want NoteTab.
All I want to know is how to set Open Office 3.0.1 as the default
editor for html in Microsoft Vista's Internet Explorer.
It worked with the previous version of Open Office, how do I do it
with Open Office 3.0.1?
Yours Sincerely Stephen Grant Brown
Assuming you are using Windows:
- Open an explorer window
- Go to Folder Options>File Types
- Scroll down to and select HTML
- Click Advanced
- Click New
- In the Action box enter the word "edit" without the quotes
- click Browse
- Browse to the program swriter.exe in your OOo 3.0.1 installation
directory and choose it as the Action
- Make sure the program name is in quotes
- After the program name enter "%1%" **with the quotes** [1]
- Select Use DDE but don't enter anything into the DDE message box
- Click OK or Apply till you are back at the explorer window
Now when you right click an HTML file and choose Edit you'll get Writer
[1] The full Action should be something like
"C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3.0\program\swriter.exe" "%1%"
with all the quotes as shown i.e with the full program name in quotes,
then a space and then the %1% also in quotes.
I do not know why 2.4 should have configured itself as the editor but
3.0.1 doesn't; perhaps it's a bug. But the solution is standard Windows
technology and actually has nothing to do with OOo. You can configure
any program to perform any named action for any given file type using
the above technique and the action's name will appear in the file's
right-click context menu. So, for example, you could create a program to
encrypt, say, text files and add its name to an "encrypt" action for TXT
files.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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