2007/4/9, Thomas Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Thanks Dan and CPH. I can now get documents to my Documents directory but when I try to open them by double clicking I get the message that they cannot be opened by Appleworks. I can open them from Recent Documents in OpenOffice. Tom
Hello Tom • To open just one file in OpenOffice.org, you can Apple-click (or control-click, or right-click) on it and chose the second option in the contextual menu: Open With. OpenOfice.org should be amongst the programs proposed (otherwise chose Other, go to your Applications folder and doubleclick OpenOffice.org 2.2 or whatever version you have installed) • To change the default, i.e. to open a certain file type always with OOo, highlight such a file, e.g. a *.doc, type Apple-i and you get a small info pane. The 5th part is called Open with. Here you can indicate OOo 2.2 (or whatever) and under this it says Always use this program to open docs of this type Change All. That's it. (I must admit that I have a small problem here: when I chose OOo 2.2 and click Change All, he changes the choice to... OOo 2.1. Dunno why...). You can repeat this procedure for all file types (xls, ppt,...) HTH -- Guy using dutch OOo 2.2 RC 4 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and dutch OOo 2.2 RC 4 on a G4 PPC Powerbook Tiger -- please reply only to [email protected] -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
