Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
This is just a generic question. It seems that on all my Linux and
Windows systems Open Office, when I click on an icon for a generic xls
file that Open Office hasn't seen before, will open it using Writer
instead of Calc. Why is this? Once I tell it to use Calc it opens the
next time with Calc, but never the first time.
Am I missing some config option inside of OO to make xls files
associate by default with Calc and then have this work better?
In Windows the default 'Open with...' association just says
'OpenOffice.org 2.0'.
True xls files should open in Calc automatically. I have no problem with
this in Windows or Linux. If I use Writer to load an xls file, OOo
launches Calc and opens the file. If I tell Windows to default to OOo in
opening an xls file, OOo opens Calc on its own.
This begs the question of whether the file being opened is really xls,
or is simply a text file with an xls extension. Asking OOo to open a
text file with an xls extension will still result in launching Writer,
because OOo knows the difference. I have seen third-party applications
produce text files with xls extensions, expecting Excel to import the
file into itself.
Verify that the files are really xls files, and not text files with xls
extensions. You may need to "import" these xls files into Calc, rather
than simply opening them with OOo.
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Alan Frayer
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