Brian Barker wrote:
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.
I think if you re-visit my second paragraph you will see that the issue is not a
problem for me ;-) My intention was to draw attention to the anomaly in case any
other users were troubled by the sudden appearance of a "Word" icon on their ODT
files.
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.
No.
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.
This would be the obvious and easy way, but it doesn't work as you think. The
file/program association is changed, but not the property string. By the way,
the "Advanced" button has very little to do with the issue.
I trust this helps.
Thanks for the good intentions.
Peter HB
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