Hi Dave: Thank you for your help. Morris Gratton
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: "Morris Gratton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 5:17 AM Subject: Re: [users] [moderated] > -------- Original Message -------- > From: Morris Gratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:15:45 -0500 > > > Hello: > > I have been using Open Office for a while now & I love it. > > But right now I have a problem. When print a Document and want to > > save it to "My Documents" It goes there, but when I want to open it > > the usual Open Office icon is not there. In it's place is a different > > icon, and when I click on it a box come up that asks me to choose > > what program I want to open it with. I can choose Open Office and it > > opens. But up until today I didn't have to do that, because the Open > > Office icon was there and I could simply click on it and the document > > would immediately open. > > What do you think made it change and how can I fix it. > > I hope you can understand what I am trying to say here. > > I would appreciate it very much if you could help me with this. > > Thank you in advance > > > > Morris Gratton > > What you are describing is known as "File Type Association". > There could be any number of reasons why Windows broke your "association > with OOo (OpenOffice.org), but you can set the Windows file associations > yourself with the following procedure: > > Changing file associations > ========================== > Find a file of the type you wish to associate with a program. > Right click on the file icon. > From the pop-up menu, select "Open With > Choose Program...". > Check "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" and > choose, or browse for, the desired application. > If that method is not available, follow the directions listed here: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859 > > Dave > -- > This is a mailing list which exists to support users of OpenOffice.org > All answers are given by other users who volunteer their time. > If you are not subscribed to this mailing list you may not see all the > replies to your query. Please reply to [email protected] only. > You should also be aware that all details of messages posted to this > list are publicly available to anyone with an Internet connection > For mailing list info see: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html > For on-line support see: http://support.openoffice.org/index.html > For a knowledge base see: http://kb.cybersite.com.au --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
