At 21:24 15/07/2007 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
Just a word to the wise: under Windows XP I have recently noticed
that Open Document Text (.odt) files are identified as "Microsoft
Word Document" in the "Type" field when mouse-hovering over an odt
file in Windows Explorer. This association cannot be found anywhere
in "Properties", so I am assuming that it will be buried somewhere
in the Registry.
Incidentally, the hijacking extended to associating MS Word with
.odt files which is how it came to my attention: changing the
association did *not* have any effect on the type field, although it
did restore Writer as the default program to open such files.
Potential culprits are:
1 Installation of the Sun .odt add-on to Word 2000. This would be a
spectacular own goal if Sun has made such an error, so it seems improbable.
2 Installation of the MS add-on to support their own .docx format
in Word 2000. It's difficult to see any benefit to MS in hijacking
.odt files, but....
No other candidates come to mind, so any thoughts would be welcome.
I think this is cosmetic rather than problematical. The
identification is just a text string, not anything functional. You
can see it in the Properties dialogue, but - as you say - not change it there.
If something changed the association on your system of .odt files to
Microsoft Word, then it will presumably have done this properly, as
it were, including changing this text identifier of the file
type. You say you changed the association back; if you did this the
obvious and easy way - through Open With > and then ticking the
"Always ..." box - you will have changed the association back to what
you want, but without correcting the identifier.
To change this in Windows XP, open Windows Explorer ("My Computer")
and go to Tools | Folder Options... | File Types. Scroll down to and
select the relevant extension, and then select Advanced. The file
type text string can be edited there.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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