Actually, I accidentally responded to the wrong message, but Guy Voets had addressed the solution: Use a later (beta) version of OO.org on the Mac (OS X) It seems it might be a known bug. I locate the latest beta builds for Mac and give it a shot.
Thanks! Dave Hopkins On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Jim Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Hopkins wrote: > > > I evidently didn't say it correctly at all. The issue is that I have > > a document, say somedocument.doc (in Word 97/XP format, not docx) on > > my Desktop. I click the document and ... OpenOffice.org opens with a > > new document, but does not load the document I double clicked. I can > > then go to File-Open and open it, but ... shouldn't the default be to > > load and open the document automatically when you click on it? > > That is the default normally. > > That OpenOffice.org opens a new document and not the one you > double-clicked on is an unusual problem that I've never encountered in > five years use of OpenOffice.org. > > Is it only the one document that this happens with, or every > OpenOffice.org document? It almost seems as though the document is bad > and so OpenOffice.org just open without out, and provides a new document > because that's what it does when you open OpenOffice Writer without > providing a document name. > > Please provide the name and version of your operating system and the > version of OpenOffice.org you are using. That might be of some help. > > Jim Allan > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
