2008/5/15 Richard Bane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How can I make Openoffice the default over my previous MS office, which is > expired. I thought of uninstalling MSOffice, but was afraid I might > uninstall the wrong items. Please advise.
One way is to use Add/Remove Programs. Scroll down to the OpenOffice entry and choose Change. Keep clicking Next/Continue until you see the option to Modify, Reapir or Remove. Choose Modify. Two more Next's brings you to a pane that lets you setOpenOffice as the default for each of the MS Office document types. Another way is to usethe standard Windows File Association mechanism; change the assocoiation on a single document of each of the three document types - .doc, .xls and .ppt. To change the association, right click a document, choose Properties and set the Open With attribute to the program you want - swriter.exe, scalc.exe and simpress.exe for document, spreadsheet and presentation respectively or to soffice.exe for all three and let OpenOffice figure out which module to invoke. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
