Here's the tip that I provided over on ooo-users. My system is busy right now
so I can't check to see how well it works with AOO 3.4.0 also:
You can try to add AOO associations manually, but it might not be effective.
The problem is that LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, and Apache OpenOffice all use
the same (old Star Office) names for the individual application programs. Even
if you succeed in having multiple swriter.exe associations, for example, you
may have trouble telling them apart [;<).
I think you already know how to do this, by using the Open With ...
context-menu and take the "Choose Default Program" option. You'll have to find
the installed files and select them. Perhaps even make it the default at
first, although you can select the program and remove the check mark on "Always
use the selected program ... ".
Thereafter, they should all be offered in the Open With ... without having to
be added. But I suspect this is where you might be frustrated. (This is how I
add WinZip to all of the ODF and OOXML extension names so I can simplify
document-forensic work.)
- Dennis
PS: I just got this working for .odds on a Vista configuration that has
OpenOffice 3.3.0, Symphony 3.0.1, and LibreOffice 3.4.3 installed.
PPS: Installing Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 seems to steal the default file
associations, no matter who has them. Because of that I tend not to keep it
around on any configurations where I want to use other ODF-supporting programs.
(When uninstalled, AOO 3.4.0 leaves no associations behind.) I haven't tried
the above procedure to get the other associations back. That's out of pique.
Let me know if it works for you.
-Original Message-
From: James Knott [mailto:james.kn...@rogers.com]
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 13:13
To: LibreOffice
Subject: [libreoffice-users] File associations - LibreOffice and OpenOffice on
Windows 7
I previously installed OpenOffice on my computer and recently
LibreOffice. I have also installed the various free Microsoft viewers.
One thing I've noticed is that I can't have both LO and OO associated
with the various file types. Please note that I'm just talking about
association, not default association, so that when I right click on a
file I can chose from among LO, OO or the Microsoft viewer. At the
moment, my choices are just LO and the viewer. If I want to use
OpenOffice, I have to open the app first and then the file.
Any way around this?
tnx jk
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