OK.....so, this is basically a known issue. Does it have to do with shortcuts in general, network shortcuts, shortcuts with certain characters?
Also, pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean by "mounting the remote filesystem"? -- Sincerely, Chris MLCS Ltd. www.mlcswoodworking.com "G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 15:26 -0400, Sawdust (Chris @ MLCS) wrote: > Hi, > > I searched the Forums to no avail. > > I just installed Open Office 2.0 (latest version from website on Thursday) on a Windows XP Pro SP2 PC with NO Microsoft Office or other office suite installed. I set all Office formats to associate to Open Office in the post-installation setup wizard. I have a desktop shortcut linking to an Excel spreadsheet on a networked computer. > > When I click the shortcut, Open Office launches (ie splash screen appears), but the file doesn't open (nothing else comes up after the splash screen goes away). The nextwork path does have an _ , could this be the issue? > > The file opens fine when I just open Calc first and then click the shortcut in the "Open File" dialog. > > Any assistance would be very helpful. Thanks! > Just to let you know. There is a problem with accessing files in the manner you describe. There is likely an issue for this which you could locate and vote for. I recall the workaround is to mount the remote filesystem. Hope this helps. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
