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 -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
