Answers in-line. On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 16:56 -0500, JOSE RUIZ HUIDOBRO wrote: > Dear Sirs: > > I have installed Openoffice in my computer. When I try yo open a > file which is in any MS Office (Excel, Word, Access, Powerpoint, etc) > format it will be opened directly by OpenOffice
When you installed OOo you checked/ticked the boxes to make OOo the default application for MSO files and the OOo installer program did exactly what you told it to do. > without giving me the chance to decide if I want to open ot in > OpenOffice or in a MS Office format. Yes this is a bad flaw in Microsoft's operating systems. Microsoft only allows you to associate one program with one file type. > > Is there any way to control this? i.e. any way to decide, beforehand, > if a certain file written, say in Word, is to be opened with Word or > with OpenOffice writer? No, Microsoft will not allow you to do this. If you start the appropriate MSO program, then use the "File -> Open" menu entry you can open your MSO files. > Sincerely > > JOSE RUIZ HUIDOBRO > > LIMA , PERU To change the MSO file associations back to the MSO applications, follow the instructions on this page: http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/ar01s04.html#FILE-ASSOCIATIONS HTH Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
