Dan, again thanks for your effort & perspective here.
-----Original Message----- From: Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Jun 27, 2005 7:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [users] Doucment Icon.? Bottom Post On Monday 27 June 2005 12:13 am, Naomi Kramer wrote: > I suspect that the main problem is Microsoft's habit of making file > extensions invisible by default. I hate this setting with a passion, > because it causes so many problems and far more confusion than it > fixes. The whole point of file extensions, as far as I'm aware, was > always to indicate what FORMAT the file is in. And as far as I'm > aware, the icon has always (in Windows at least) been used simply to > show which program would OPEN the file by default. When file > extensions are hidden, people are more likely to confuse the default > program and the format of the file. > > James, all I can recommend is to make sure file extensions are turned > ON in Windows :-/ > > - Naomi > > >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. > I just read the OP's email. The pertinent part is this: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 would like *.doc documents to be ditinguished from true OOo *.sxw ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It has nothing to do with conversions between MS Office and OOo. It only had to do with icons. That is why I suggested using WordPad as the documents by having a different icon. It would mean that the *.doc files could only be opened by OOo using File > Open or Control+O. But at least there would be no confusion as to which file had which format. I would also like James Elliot to respond to what has been written. 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]
