joan brown wrote:
Hello,
I am not very computer literate, ashamedly, but have just downloaded Open
Office. However, I misunderstood the section on disassociating Open Office
with MS Office files. I have Windows XP on an Advent 7003 laptop. What do I
do now? There are now too many files - very confusing. All I need are the 3
separate icons for Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Can you help? Remember, I
don't understand the workings of a computer so am very green - you will have to
spell it out for me.
Very grateful for your help as I need to print some labels to send out my
daughters wedding invitations urgently tomorrow.
If I understand your question correctly, you installed OpenOffice and
made it the default application for Microsoft Office files, when you
didn't want to. Is that correct? If so, it's a simple matter of
resetting the file associations, as described below. You'll have to do
this for each file type, i.e. .DOC, .XLS etc. Also, no matter which
application you have set as default, you can always run any other,
simply by right clicking on the file icon and then choosing the desired
application.
Changing file associations
Right click on file icon
Select Open With > Choose Program...
Check "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" and
choose the desired application.
If that method is not available, follow the directions listed here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859
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