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RE: [opensuse] OpenOffice default question
- From: "Greg Wallace" <gregwallace@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:14:30 -0600
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On Saturday, November 11, 2006 @ 4:45 AM, StephenW wrote:
>At work I have routinely been adding OO when setting up new desktops. That
is causing problems >because it is coming up as the default office suite.
>How do I reset things so it is not the default?
>The real problem is not OO - but the icon that identifies the document.
They are so familiar with >identifying their with the blue "W" that they
think all of their documents have disappeared.
>Thanks
>sw
Are you talking about on Windows machines? If so, it apparently is taking
over the .doc extension normally used by Word. I would suggest re-assigning
.doc to Word and using some different file extension for OO. To do that, go
into Windows Explorer, select Tools-Folder Options, and select the File
Types tab. Locate DOC in the list of extensions and choose Change to change
the program assigned to it. You should see Microsoft Word in there. Select
it and you will have re-assigned Word to that extension. Your next task is
to add a new 3 digit suffix and assign the OO word type of application to
that suffix. You'd then need to change the suffixes on any OO word type
documents to that new extension. That way, when they double click on those
documents it will launch OO.
Greg Wallace
>At work I have routinely been adding OO when setting up new desktops. That
is causing problems >because it is coming up as the default office suite.
>How do I reset things so it is not the default?
>The real problem is not OO - but the icon that identifies the document.
They are so familiar with >identifying their with the blue "W" that they
think all of their documents have disappeared.
>Thanks
>sw
Are you talking about on Windows machines? If so, it apparently is taking
over the .doc extension normally used by Word. I would suggest re-assigning
.doc to Word and using some different file extension for OO. To do that, go
into Windows Explorer, select Tools-Folder Options, and select the File
Types tab. Locate DOC in the list of extensions and choose Change to change
the program assigned to it. You should see Microsoft Word in there. Select
it and you will have re-assigned Word to that extension. Your next task is
to add a new 3 digit suffix and assign the OO word type of application to
that suffix. You'd then need to change the suffixes on any OO word type
documents to that new extension. That way, when they double click on those
documents it will launch OO.
Greg Wallace
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