2008/7/31 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have downloaded open office and have never had any office program > installed prior. However, to open a document I have to save it then choose > open office from a browsing list to open it. i.e. I try to open a ppt > document on blackboard and I have to save it to my documents the choose open > office to open it, from there I can choose open office to always open that > document. I do not want to have to save a document in order to open it. > What is the way to make open office my defalt for that type of thing. I went > to file type settings to check the association but I don't have, .doc, .xls, > .ppt, etc... to choose. Help. > > Jeff Mosher >
When you installed OpenOffice you should have been offered the option of making it the "default" program for handling Microsoft Office documents and, if you had said yes you wouldn't be seeing this problem. The easiest way now is to follow the instructions in OpenOffice's Help under "File associations": === begin Help text === To change the association of Microsoft Office file name extensions to open the files either in OpenOffice.org or in Microsoft Office, using Microsoft Windows: 1. Exit OpenOffice.org and the OpenOffice.org Quickstarter. 2. Run the OpenOffice.org Setup program: Click the Windows *Start* button, choose *Control Panel*, click *Add or Remove Programs*, select the OpenOffice.org 2.4 entry, click *Change*. 3. In the OpenOffice.org Setup, check the *Modify* option and click *Next*until you see the file types page. 4. Select or deselect the file types. Click *OK* and complete the OpenOffice.org Setup program. === end Help text=== Alternatively just use standard Windows techniques to change the associations: *right* click on a document, choose Open With, browse to and select "soffice.exe" in OpenOffice's programs folder and check the box labelled "Always use this program for this file type". You only need to do that once for each type of document. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
