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On Sunday 26 June 2005 08:41 pm, Anthony Chilco wrote:
> Hi James,
> The problem is that the icon for any particular file type is taken
> from the program that it is linked to. If you had Word on the pc and
> had doc files associated with it, then they would display the Word
> icon. As soon as you make OOo the default program for opening doc
> files, the icon will change to the OOo icon. It may be possible to
> 'fake out' Windows by creating a new document type to associate doc
> files with and have them still open with OOo. I've got XP on a
> laptop. I'll see what I can do, but I don't have much hope.
> tc
>
> James Elliott wrote:
> > I install OOo on all the computers I sell and instruct the new
> > users to: 1. save in OOo format for internal use
> > 2. save in PDF to send non-editable documents to other people
> > 3. save in M$ Word format to send editable docs to Word users
> >
> > All of these customers have Windows XP as their OS
> >
> > The customers therefore end up with a mixture of .sxw, .doc, and
> > .pdf files in their "My Documents" folder.
> >
> > The PDF docs have the default Adobe Acrobat Reader icon
> > The OOo docs have the default OOo icon
> > The Word docs also have the OOo icon
> >
> > I followed the M$ WinXP Help instructions to change the workd docs
> > icon, but the property these instructions referred to was not
> > present in the dialog box. I owuld like *.doc documents to be
> > ditinguished from true OOo *.sxw documents by having a different
> > icon.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to change an OOo icon under Windows XP?
> >
> > Many thanks, James Elliott
Does Windows XP still have WordPad? Is this the default program for
*.doc files when Word is not install if OOo is not installed? If so,
associating the *.doc files with WordPad might work.
Dan
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