Paul, thank you for your perspective. I'm going to try a post-installation correction.
-----Original Message----- From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Jun 26, 2005 11:27 PM To: [email protected], richard perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [users] Doucment Icon.? I've gone back through this post and R. Perry's post and they are similar in some manner but not exact. >Does anyone know how to change an OOo icon under Windows XP? I don't believe so. I've looked through explorer and various property values of differing files and here is what I've found. I cannot find out where to change the icon and _not_ change what application opens that file. This can possibly be done by users but I'm not aware of where this lives. XP does this automatically for some items (eg, if the file has a .doc extension and M$ word is not installed, then open in wordpad). - in this case I'm not sure what the icon would be. In most cases (in a windows world) the extension denotes the application. The user can denote what application opens what extension. OOo, when installing, can be set to open .doc, .xls, .ppt files natively. These can be changed by the user after installation. If OOo does open these files, it does not mean that any _conversion_ has happened. If there are specific questions, please advise. HTH, /paul On 6/27/05, richard perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Everyone on our Forum, regarding Anthony's Post. Thanks, Dan, for > trying to answer his problem, but I'm not sure the WORD/OOo > interchangeability problems are being addressed. Does anyone see the > similarities to my problem/post a couple days ago? ... i.e. the conversion > factors from OOo to Word (PDF, .SXW, .DOC, WordPad, etc.) ... or am I totally > off base? I'm quite fine if anyone tells me I'm missing the point here (at > least that would help me move on to other possible solutions). > > I appreciated the posts attempting to resolve my particular problem in this > regard, but they didn't help me get a solution ... either because I'm dumb > (to which I readily admit without shame), or there's something wrong with OOo > 2 Beta. I didn't have these problems with 1.1.4. > > Since I couldn't resolve the problem in OOo 2 (1.9 beta), today I tried to > re-install the stable version 1.1.4. to see if I'm totally wacko about this > problem. Well, that didn't work either ... It's been so long since I > installed OOo at all, I'm having problems even trying to install the 1.1.4 > too ... Gaw! I can't imagine what the Newbies are going through. > > So, if there are any "Experts" on OOo out there, please continue to try > helping us out with this Microsoft Word versus Open Office conversion. I > thought that's what this whole project is about. > > Thanks. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Jun 26, 2005 9:59 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [users] Doucment Icon.? > > Bottom Post > > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
