On 24 September 2010 15:06, Tanstaafl <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2010-09-24 4:05 AM, Julien CHEVALIER wrote:
> > My problem is that the file comes from outisde OO
> > With 3.1 when I was opening it everything was going well.
> > With 3.2 the file opening fails.
>
> Yep, confirms this is deut to the wise decision to remove the ability to
> associate Microsoft Office files with OOo in t he GUI installer.
>
> Older versions took over these associations by default, but you could
> UNcheck them in the GUI. Then they made the default with them UNchecked
> - then they removed these options from the GUI installer altogether.
>

This must be a Linux thing (or Mac ?). I moved to 3.2 on Windows XP Pro and
on Vista Home Premium without this difficulty. Perhaps the OP is using a
Linux-distro-specific version of OOo instead of the "official" version from
the OOo web site ?????


>
> Obviously someone on the OOo development team simply doesn't care how
> badly they screw things up for users (as evidenced by the brain-dead
> decision to switch from colored icons to greyscale)...
>
>
What greyscale icons? Where? Not in Writer's toolbars - at least not on Win
XP Pro

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