Thanks Larry.  I did a quick search for the word moderate but didn't see it.  
Didn't know it had been changed.

//J

On Mar 15, 2011, at 23:40 , Larry Gusaas wrote:

> 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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