If you do not have OpenOffice, or a compatible reader, installed then, as
far as I know, there is no way you can open the attachment. It would be like
tryimg to open a flash movie without having at least the free flash player.
You can do any of three things:
1. Install OpenOffice. It's free and, in many people's opinion, better than
MS Office.
You can get it at http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.3/index.html
2. Install the free reader from http://www.officeviewers.com/
3. Ask the person/people sending you .odt files to send them as .pdf instead
and then install (if you haven't already) the free Acrobat reader.
You can get Acrobat at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Note that it's trivial for an OpenOffice user to save a document as a .pdf
file. Can't say the same about MS Office ;-)
Hope this helps.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tan Bien Chuan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:39 AM
Subject: [users] Unable to open .odt attachment
Dear Sir
I am using Outlook Express and Microsoft Office. I received an email with
an .odt attachment. When tried to open it, the error message was "The file
does not have a program associated with it for performing this action.
Create an association in the folder option control panel".
How do I open the attachment? Also, if every Microsoft Office user has to
"create a link" then most likely it will be too complicated to open a .odt
file. Can Open office be more user friendly?
B C Tan
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