I am using OOo 1.1.4 on Windows XP Pro.
I see many posts about people not wanting their MS Office documents
associated with OpenOffice. (ie: Help! My office documents don't open in
Office any more!)
I want the opposite. I want .doc and .xls and .ppt files to open in
OpenOffice. Now, I *can* open those file in OOo, but what I want is the
file association in Windows. I can open .xls files if I do it through
OpenOffice (open file...) No problem there.
But how do I get the file association so that when I click on a .xls
file, it opens in Calc?
I am trying to set up OpenOffice as the standard for a small group of
teachers at a school. They need to be able to seamlessly open and save
to Word and Excel documents. (I know that the best way to use OOo is
working with native file formats and saving out to .doc when needed, but
they won't do that). So I have set things up to always save as MS Office
formats (Options|Load/Save|General)
During setup, I selected OpenOffice to automatically open Word, Excel
and PowerPoint documents. In the options, I tried selecting the
conversions - both load and convert and convert and save.
(Options|Load/Save|MS Office)
Still, .doc, .xls and .ppt files show no file association in Windows and
when given a choice to select which program to open, there isn't an
easily-discernible executable to select for each doc type. Selecting
openoffice (soffice.exe) produces errors.
What am I doing wrong?
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Ken Green
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