David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "NoOp"<[email protected]>
| On 05/25/2010 02:28 PM, David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "Daniel Lewis"<[email protected]>
| This is a little bit late for you, but this should be done when
| installing OOo. One of the windows during installation has four
| checkboxes labeled with four of the MS Office programs. If they are
| checked during installation, the MS Office files are associated with OOo.
| Dan
I didn't see that on some PCs where MS Office had been installed but removed
prior to
installing OO.
I need an after installation option.
| Long read... but looks like it's being worked on:
| http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=96594
|<http://quaste.services.openoffice.org/index.php?option=com_tcs&task=tcs_show&tcsid=
| 3112>
| You could try aqabill's msi:
|<http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11386#p61937>
| Warning: read both pages of the forum posts& try on a test machine
| first if you have one available. Also note that I have *not* tried this
| yet as I only have Win2K installed in a virtual machine& haven't booted
| the test WinXP machine today. When I tried it in Win2K it warned me that
| it could not be installed on machines earlier than WinXP.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh...............
Thank you. So I am not alone in this :-)
And I made the mistake of thinking the dialog used to change the file
associtaions was still part of the Windows installer. Sorry about that.
Dan
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