Hi,
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On 2011/03/15 2:40 PM James Wilde wrote:
Lisa, that's a Mac thing rather than an OOo thing. In Finder, mark a document of the type
you want to open in something else, and right click on Get info. I'm going to assume you
want to open, say .doc files in MS Word. So click on a .doc file in Finder and select Get info.
You will see a tall, thin window open with info on that doc file. A little over half way
down you'll see a section headed Open with: and here you will see Open Office. Click on the
arrows at the right end of that field and see if MS Word is on the list. If it is, select
it. If it isn't select Other and another window will open where you can search for MSWord
and mark it. Now you will see MSWord instead of Open Office in the Open with field. In the
same area, you will see a button marked Change All... Click on that, and confirm, and all
files that end with .doc will now open in MSWord. You would have to do the same with .docx,
and with spreadsheets, whatever they are called in MSOffice, and anything else that Open
Office opens that you don't want it to.
I suggest that you don't change files ending with .ods, .odt etc, as these are files created
in Open Office, and may not convert properly to MSWord documents. If you want to convert
these documents also, you'll have to open them in Open Office and save them as the MS
equivalent. Check afterwards that these new files will then open in MSOffice and change if
necessary. If you convert in this way, you should then move the original .ods, .odt file etc
to Trash.
Hope this helps.
//James
On Mar 15, 2011, at 13:37 , Lisa Dee wrote:
I have installed OpenOffice on my MacBook Pro as a favor to my employer. Now every document,
regardless of file extension, is automatically launched through OpenOffice. How do I change
OO so that it is NOT my default app?
Lisa Dee
Larry
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