Check your settings in OpenOffice
TOOLS > OPTIONS > LOAD/SAVE > Microsoft Office
This may correct your situation.
Peter Hillier-Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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