[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Guy
I use Microsoft Works quite extensively for my databases - presumably
there's no way and no advantage to open such documents with Open Office?
Regards
Ian Gibbons
In a message dated 20/05/2006 13:23:56 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have just downloaded and installed Open Office for the first time
>
> I am a frequent business user but not in any way technically
competent
>
> I have a question which may sound naive but does not seem to be
answered in
> any of the FAQs etc
>
> On the Openoffice installation wizard it says "openoffice.org
2.0 can be set
> as the default application.............If you are just trying out
> openoffice.org 2.0 you probably don't want this to happen, so
leave the boxes unticked."
>
> Here's my question:
>
> IF I DON'T TICK THE BOXES HOW WILL I KNOW IF OPEN OFFICE IS
ACTUALLY WORKING?
>
> Regards
>
> Ian Gibbons
>
>
All this does is set OOo to be the default application for opening MS
Office documents in Windows. If you have MS Office installed and
want to
keep it as the main application for Word, Powerpoint, etc. files,
don't
tick the box in the OOo installation. Then when you open a .doc,
.ppt,
etc. file from My Documents or wherever, it'll open in the MS Office
application. To open OOo and see if it is working, you can just
open it
from the Start menu. To see how well it works at opening an MS Office
file, right-click on it and choose 'Open With', 'OpenOffice.org'.
Or you
can open the OOo application from the Start menu, then choose 'File',
'Open', and choose the correct file. If you've tried out OOo and are
happy with how it opens MS Office files and want to make it the
default
application for opening them (changing it to how it would be if
you had
selected the tick box in the installation), right-click on a .doc or
whatever file, choose 'Properties', then 'Opens With', then select
'OpenOffice.org'. Now when you open that type of file from My
Documents,
My Computer, the desktop, etc. it'll open in OOo.
Guy
No, not if you save them in MS Works format rather than MS Office
format. I'd recommend trying out OOo Base though to see if that suits
your needs. I haven't used Works Database, but from my experience of the
other Works applications, OOo is much better, and is a lot closer to the
standard of MS Office (I find it's already equal for almost everything I
need to do, and is superior in quite a lot of ways, e.g. exporting to
PDF, and I definitely prefer OOo Math and Draw to the equivalent
functions in MS Office).
Guy
