The list of converters/translators appears as soon as you try to open a
file that's not native. Word does the same thing except the converter
list is sorted alphabetically. The OpenOffice list is so long, and the
names aren't exactly what you'd expect for the file types. I looked for
Word 2008, but the converter is called XML something--not intuitive if
you don't already use Word 08.
There must be a way to make the list alphabetical, yes? Or maybe I could
remove some of the converter files that I don't expect to ever use.
FWIW, Word doesn't open OO documents, and doesn't have translators,
naturally. I don't do clouds--they obfuscate. I do use the Internet.
Is it even necessary to pick a type? When opening an existing
document, just open it, ignoring the file types entirely. The file
extension is supposed to tell the app what it is you're opening. I
dunno, as these days I either use Office or a cloud solution (Zoho,
Google Docs).
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:52 PM, mike<xha...@gmail.com> wrote:
Any chance you can begin to type the first few letters of the one you want
and it sorts?
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