Hi Harold, Thanks for the message - That seems to have solved my issues!
Through work, I can purchase low cost versions of office, also, it makes it easier for me to collaborate and work as I'm very used to Office suite as have been using it since the '95 version. I find, due to my experience with Office, I'm much more productive with it than having to learn how to do things differently in OOo. E.g. keyboard shortcuts are different, different icons, tables don't work as well etc. Compatibility is not as good as some people think or as good as OOo says. Tables and other formats change even if you use the "save as .doc" function etc. Though it is free and open source, which is great, I find for me personally that it's easier to stick to Office - also, Outlook 2003 is far superior to any open source mail client (I've tried lots!). Regards, Marios -----Original Message----- From: Harold Fuchs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 October 2006 09:42 To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [users] Removing 2.0.4 and MS Office 2003 On Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:14 AM [GMT+1=CET], Marios Patrinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'm running Windows XP Home (fully patched and updated). > > > > I used to use Open Office 2.0.0 and upgraded to 2.0.4. > > I then purchased MS Office 2003 and installed this and then removed > 2.0.4 using the uninstall. Since then, my PC does not recognize .xls > format files, and I have to force it to use MS Word to open .doc > files, even ones it has created itself. Windows still thinks these > are soffice .doc files. > > > > What is the fix? <snip> Look up "Associate" in Windows Help (Start > Help and Support). You need to associate .doc files with Word, .xls files with Excel and .ppt files with Powerpoint. The Help shows you how. I would be very interested to know why you paid for MS Office when OpenOffice is completely free and, many would argue, better. Harold Fuchs London, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
