CC'ed to OP On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:06:37 -0700 (PDT) M Law wrote:
Michael, your frustration is very plain to see in this email. That is not unusual for someone that is trying to use a program that is different to the one they are used to, as OpenOffice.org (OO.o) and the Microsoft Office Suite are. I hope i can help ease that frustration, answer all your questions and give you some worthwhile advice asked for all at the same time. > ekenI can not find a way to successfully uninstall open office from my > PC. > Most if not all programs should be removed using the control panel tool "add/remove programs". > The program has made my Resume, produced in MSWord, unusable, and I > have encountered nothing but problems with everything I've tried to > do since this program was installed on my PC. Microsoft do not release information about the internal storage method of the file format .DOC. Consequently OO.o's filter that imports .DOC files is not perfect. Having said that each version of OO.o is better than the last, the most recent version of OO.o is 2.0.3. What will geerally not work at all is VB macros. A second reason that a file may look different is that each program can present information differently. This is a decision made by programmers and the teams above that level. Though very similar in presentation Word and OO.o do not present information identically. > It was installed so I could convert something or a friend who knows > nothing about PCs and has caused me issue after issue for the last 3 > months. What issues? How have you gone about solving them? Have you read any manuals about the differences between Word and OO.o? Online support is quite extensive, both on this list and in the documentation section of the web site. http://documentation.openoffice.org/ Writing an OO.o document can require you unlearn some bad habits that Word gets you into. Taking the time to do so can increase your productivity. As a for instance; most Word users do not seperate content from design as they are authoring a document. > I'd like it off my PC and I'd like to ratain all of the MSWord files > that it has converted with out my permission. Removing any program should not remove any files stored in My Documents or on your backup device... EVER. No Word files have been "converted without your permission" at all. Despite your frustration i can advise you that this statement is incorrect on two counts: Each file type is assigned a default program, which opens the file, by Microsoft Windows (not OO.o). Thus web pages will usually open by default in Internet Explorer. Pictures will open in a picture viewing program or editor, whichever is set as the default. Thus you may find .JPG images open in Paint, .GIF images open in Internet Explorer, and .SVG images in Inkscape by default. Microsoft Windows, the Operating System, not any given program is responsible for deciding which program opens which file type. Secondly during the install process you probably gave permission for all Word, Excel, and Powerpoint file to open "By Default" in OO.o. It is a simple matter to reset this Windows setting. I beleive once you have done so, your frustrations will be greatly reduced and you will see no need to remove OO.o at all. ___To reset the default program___ DISCLAIMER - The following is from memory and may not be 100% accurate. STEP 1 IF you have Windows XP simply right click on any .DOC file OR For Windows98 or WindowsME hold shift and right click on any .DOC file STEP 2 Select "Open With..." from the pop up menu. If the list is only 3 or 4 entries long you probably moved the mouse while right clicking. STEP 3 Select the program you would like to open the file with from the list, in your case Microsoft Word. STEP 4 Look for a checkbox in the bottom left corner of the dialogue box that reads something like "Use this program to open all files of this type" and check it (click in it). STEP 5 Click OK > Please advise, Certainly... Do not uninstall OO.o immediately for several reasons. 1. If you thought going from Microsoft Word to OO.o was a stretch. Wait until you see the new Microsoft Word version12 to be released soonish. There are far more presentational similarities between OO.o and your exististing Word than between Word 2003 and Word 12. OpenOffice and Word can happily coexist side by side on your computer. 2. If you saved any files at all using OO.o's native file type then you will need OO.o to read these files and possibly to convert them. 3. Microsoft Office does not have any equivalent to the "Draw" part of OO.o 4. Many governments, states and cities are beginning to specify ODF formatted files because you are not tied into a single Operating System or an expensive Office Suite available only from one supplier. Over the past year especially much press has been given to the very public, at times very caustic debate in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts which will require all public documents be in ODF format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument 5. Oo.o is free 6. Consider the assistance you get for each. Would Microsoft give you an hour to help you understand these issues as i and others on this mailing list can and will do for free. -- Michael Those that can, do; those that can't, teach. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
