Thank you, Adrian, Harold, and the rest of your team. Your fix-it's worked (and I had clicked the 'always open with' box). I will try opening some of the templates to see if I can get them and the graphics in now. I find it weird that the same extension could be used by two such different programs...how strange is that!! May God bless your day! Cynthia
Later- did try and still cannot open templates or insert graphics into the document. Any suggestions on this one? Adrian wrote: Your mention of "Overdrive" helps solve the puzzle. Overdrive files use the file extension .odm. That file extension is also used by OpenOffice.org for master documents. Windows decides which program to open a file with solely based on the file extension. When Windows sees a .odm file, it doesn't know whether it is an Overdrive file or an OpenOffice.org master document. When you install Overdrive or OpenOffice.org, the .odm extension is "associated" with that program. Whichever program was installed last is the program Windows remembers, and opens the file with when you double click its icon. But all is not lost. If you right click the file (rather than double click it), you are able to select "Open With", which lists all programs that are able to open a file with that extension. That way, you can decide whether to open the file with Windows Media Player, or OpenOffice.org, or something else. In addition, if you think you'll never (or only rarely) need OpenOffice Master Documents then you can change the association permanently: 1. Right click one of the files 2. Select Properties 3. Near the top you'll see "Open with" followed by the icon and name of a program which, in turn, is followed by a button labelled "Change". 4. Click this button and browse to Windows Media Player. 5. Tick (check) the box labelled "Always use this program ..." before clicking OK. I hope my explanation has been clear enough! Adrian when you double click a .odm file it will open automatically in Windows Media Player. If it really is a Master Document you can open it in OpenOffice by right clicking on it and choosing OpenOffice from the list of available programs. Just make sure that this time you *don't* tick the "Always use ..." box ;-) -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
