John Kreidler wrote:
I am new to openoffice and need some help. I just purchased a new laptop with Windows 7 installed. It came with a student trial version of Windows Office installed but I prefer to open existing files (word, excel etc.) created in Office 2007 and create new ones using openoffice. When attempting to do this, however, the computer defaults to the Microsoft software. Any thoughts that may help? Thanks!
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What you're describing is a problem with the "file associations" that you can reset; exactly how depends on your OS, but you can usually right click on the icon for the file, choose Open With, then browse to the program you want to use, like swriter.exe for .docx files. If you select the option to always use this program for this file type, you should only have to do this once for each type.
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