Ok, is it possible that these are not genuine plain text only files?
How are they created in the first place? Is there something in the file
that makes OO think that calc is more appropriate than writer?
Just trying to think past the obvious.
You could create a file that you know will be plain text at a command
prompt like this:
c:\>echo blah > blah.txt
and see what writer does with that
Neil
Jason Cipriani wrote:
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
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