Jo wrote:
can you help me. I want to use doc. files or word rather than openoffice. How
do i change back?
There's really no need to "change back" -- you can both read and write
.doc files using OOo Writer, and you can decide whether you want to use
Writer or Word as a default overall, or on a file-by-file basis. Both
OOo and MS Office programs can coexist on the same computer.
If you want to use Writer, but save text documents as .doc files because
you're sending them to people who can't or won't use the standard ODF
formats, you can either use File > Save As and select .doc format or, if
you always want to do this, change the default setting using Tools
>Options, Load/Save, General, Document type Text document, Always save
as Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (the most widely supported of the MS Word
types).
If you want to use Word for .doc files, and Writer for general use to
get its advantages, you may need to ensure that the .doc files have a
"file association" that specifies Word as the default.This can usually
be done by right-clicking on the file, selecting Open With, browsing to
the Word application, and selecting the option to always use this
program for these files. You will want to make sure that the file
association for .odt files stays with OOo; installing an upgrade of Word
(and maybe basically any other MS application) may change it to use Word
now that Office 2007 SP2 "supports" the ODF formats. (It sort of does,
but in a way unlike every other application that uses ODF.)
If you really don't want OOo at all, you can uninstall it using your
operating system's usual process, such as Add/Remove Programs. Before
doing this, make sure that the OOo QuickStarter program is not running
(it would have an icon with seagulls, in your system tray on the bottom
right of your screen). If it's there, right-click on it and select Exit.
After you have uninstalled OOo, you may need to set file associations as
described above.
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