https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81927
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 81927
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Summary: Installation screws up file linkings to Microsoft
Office, although installer was instructed not to touch
them
Severity: normal
Classification: Unclassified
OS: Windows (All)
Reporter: ovv...@hotmail.nl
Hardware: x86 (IA32)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 4.3.0.4 release
Component: Installation
Product: LibreOffice
Preambule: Dutch LibreOffice (32-bits?) installment on Dutch Windows 8.1
system, Intel 64-bits. Just a normal installation on a standard Windows version
(Dutch) with all other application programs closed.
Earlier versions of LibreOffice, at least 4.2.5:
In the Installation wizard: unchecked (something like): leave the file linkings
to Microsoft Office alone. So, the LibreOffice installer was not allowed to
touch the file linkings of Microsoft Office documents!
Expected result: after installing LibreOffice all my MS Office documents should
be linked to MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint respectively.
Result after installing: all Microsoft Office documents were linked to
LibreOffice.
Remedy: opening all MS Office documents types once with the MS Office module in
question. This changed the file linkings from LibreOffice to MS Office.
LibreOffice 4.3.0 screwed up linkings big time.
All documents linkings between Microsoft Office documents and Microsoft Office
programs seemed to be intact.
However, double clicking on a Microsoft Office document or clicking on one of
my Microsoft Office icons in the taskbar started not the Microsoft Office
module as expected, but started some "Windows Installer".
I have no idea which installer, I cancelled immediately.
Again: the LibreOffice installer should have left all linkings to Microsoft
documents alone, as instructed in the installer!
I found out a remedy: run the program Microsoft Office Diagnostics (NL:
Microsoft Office Diagnostische gegevens). Luckily (the coupling to) this
program wasn't screwed up. Somehow the MS Office Diagnostics program found out
about the screwed up linkings and restrored them to the correct linkings.
There was no need to install something or another.
Please change the behavior in the LibreOffice installer. Leave all file
linkings to Microsoft Office alone if you promise the user that these linkings
will not be touched!
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