Hi everyone - thanks for the many replies
I think a lot of you have misunderstood my challenge. I know about
nominating which programs open which types of documents, but this is not
about that. However, while still on that subject, let me remind you that
when I sell a computer with OOo on it I have OOo set to also open M$
documents and spreadsheets, by default, and I want to leave it that way -
not change the default for M$ Word docs so that Wordpad opens them. All I
want to do is to change the icon, so that I, or rather, my customers, can
visually distinguish between Word and OOo documents in a folder list.
When you set the defaults for file types so that, for example, OOo opens all
*.sxw Writer documents and M$ Word opens all *.doc Word documents, then
which program is chosen to open the selected file is determined by the file
extension, not the icon. If the extension is *.doc then M$ Word will open
the document (if that is what you have set up), and if it is *.sxw then OOo
will open the document. The way I have my file type defaults set up is that
OOo opens both *.sxw and *.doc files, and I want to leave it that way.
However, somewhere, sometime in the past, I am sure that when I right
clicked on a file and then on 'Properties' there was an option to: 'Change
the Icon'.
That's all I want to do ... Change the Icon ... not the default program
which opens the file.
I hope this clarifies things.
Many thanks for your interest and responses, James
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 7:26 PM
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:
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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
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