Thomas Steel wrote:
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From: "Barbara Duprey" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 9:00 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting?/TSteel
Thomas Steel wrote:
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And can you explain why I can open files if I go via the blue
desktop icon & then 'Open a file', but I can't open anything either
thro the desktop shortcuts or through the Windows document library?
I think what you're describing here is that the Windows file
associations for the filetypes are not set to let it automatically
find a program to execute when you double-click a file's icon --
either that, or the files were saved without an extension, such as
.ods for an ODF spreadsheet (you should always make sure that the
option to automatically save the extension is selected). Make sure
the files you are trying to open have their extensions, then right
click on one of them Choose Open With, and browse under Program
Files to the right OOo program (e.g., swriter.exe for .doc, .docx, or
.odt files). Select the option to always use this program for this
kind of file. You should only have to do this once for each extension.
(This of course is a new problem following my reinstall attempt).
This is a new computer (replacing a stolen one): it uses Windows 7,
which is new to me. Obviously I did a new installation of OOo when I
began & it seemed to work OK until last weekend's sudden blockage of
a file. TS
Yes, apparently something got seriously damaged somehow -- wish we
knew what caused the problem! Anyway, hopefully you'll be OK now.
Well, I don't know about OK. I can now find a roundabout way of
opening all my files, except the one which was the problem in the
first place. It's hardly progress! I do wonder whether OOo is simply
too complex for me. TS
Have you done the steps above about setting file associations? If so,
all you should have to do is double-click a file to open it -- nothing
"roundabout" there, once all the extensions have been set up once. If
you couldn't figure that out, let's continue this off-list. (It's an
operating system function, really nothing to do with OOo.)
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