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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Wallace wrote:
>
> On Saturday, November 11, 2006 @ 4:45 AM, StephenW wrote:
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>  
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> >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
>
Why not use the default .ODT and .ODS suffixes?

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