Neil, Thanks for your quick reply.
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't replicate your problem on WinXP OO 2.4. It opens a text doco fine in > writer for me. > > However when you go File | Open in writer what happens if you select "Text > Documents" or "Text (*.txt)" in Files of Type? I actually did try "Text (*.txt)" already and it had no effect, but now I am trying some other options, and: "All Files (*.*)" -- doesn't work, opens in Calc "Text Documents" -- doesn't work, opens in Calc "Text (*.txt)" -- doesn't work, opens in Calc "Text Encoded (*.txt)" -- works, opens in Writer! So when I choose Text Encoded, it works (displays ASCII filter options first, initial character set selection is Windows-1252, if that's significant). Looking at the text file, it uses LF line endings only (it is plain ASCII text, not Unicode; also my language is set to US English in Windows, fyi). Maybe that is somehow affecting the decision? This doesn't seem right, though, it's clearly not what I want to happen, because I'm opening the file from the file menu in Writer, not in Calc. I can't explain why it's happening but at least I can open the document. Thanks, Jason > > Neil > > Jason Cipriani wrote: >> >> When I start Writer, and go to File -> Open and choose a .txt file, it >> then displays the data import dialog and opens it in Calc instead >> (...huh?). I don't want this to happen. I want to open the file in >> Writer. Currently the only way I can do this is open the file in >> notepad then copy + paste the text into writer. >> >> I'm using: >> Windows XP SP2 >> OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 >> Default program for .txt files is notepad. >> >> Thanks, >> Jason >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
