Re: Question re/ using Open Office
Looks like we've both been around the block a time or 2 - though I'm not the techie that you are. My first experience was in the early 60s. Learned to write Fortran on an old Philco 2000 while working in research for an aerospace division of Ford. I joined IBM in 1968 and although I was in sales I learned to write in assembler, COBOL, ALGOL, PL1, APL, SIMSCRIPT (a simulation language), Basic and on into the languages of the 90s. Because of my experience in research I was often able to do problem determination as well or better than some of the best technicians. I went to work for Amdahl in WA in the early 90s and a couple of other companies after that. Finally gave it up. Got tired of working for and around idiots. Went back to IBM in 2000 but gave it up for good after 6 months. It was no longer the IBM that I had once worked for. Just another hack company as far as I was concerned. Thanks again for your help. If you ever figure out a way to open MS files with open as, please let me know. In the meantime, I have a workable solution. -Original Message- From: James Knott Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 8:07 PM To: users@openoffice.apache.org ; Richard Fox Subject: Re: Question re/ using Open Office On 06/25/2015 10:25 PM, James Knott wrote: For the record, I bought my first computer in 1976, an IMSAI 8080, worked for several years as a computer technician maintaining mini-computers, DEC VAX 11/780, a few different PR1ME and Data General models, along with a Collins C8500 (a mil spec version of the IBM 360) system running the Air Canada reservation system and also 3rd level support at IBM Canada, where I worked on OS/2, Windows 95, NT XP and several applications. I also have considerable experience with Linux and am a Cisco CCNA. I have also completed several computer science courses. In short, my experience with computers goes back to the mid '70s or even a few years earlier, if you count a FORTRAN class I took in high school. Forgot to mention Certified OS/2 Warp 4 Engineer and Novell Netware 3.x CNA. Richard Fox rafo...@outlook.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Question re/ using Open Office
Thanks, James. That actually makes sense. It looked to me like a registry problem. I think I'm going to install OO on my wife's Win 7 system and see what happens. You've been a great help. I wish others were that persistent. I've considered trying Linux, but I'm afraid that I have too many programs that I rely on that won't be available. Guess I'm a prisoner to MS - just like I am to the cell phone providers. -Original Message- From: James Knott Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 8:41 AM To: users@openoffice.apache.org ; Richard Fox Subject: Re: Question re/ using Open Office On 06/26/2015 09:19 AM, Richard Fox wrote: Thanks again for your help. If you ever figure out a way to open MS files with open as, please let me know. In the meantime, I have a workable solution. I just checked with Windows 10. I normally use Windows 7, when I have to use Windows. W10 is different in that the apps do not appear to be automatically added as an app registered to open a file type. Instead, it's necessary to click on Open with Choose another app and then choose the app from Other Options and also select Always use this app However, even after selecting that, the app will not appear in the Open with list, though it is the default. I guess this is Microsoft's way to discourage competitor software. I suspect W8 is the same as W10 in this respect. Richard Fox rafo...@outlook.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Question re/ using Open Office
Doesn't seem to work. No matter how I try to open an xlsx file (Office 2010) I can't seem to get an OO option. This PS is running Win 8.1. I have both Office 2010 and OO running so that I can test portability. I'm also using File Center for file management. I thought that might be the problem since it's in the middle of everything, but that's not the problem. I've tested with the files in Explorer and I still can't select OO to open. I have another PC that's running Win 7 but I don't have OO installed on it. -Original Message- From: James Knott Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 7:09 AM To: users@openoffice.apache.org ; Richard Fox Subject: Re: Question re/ using Open Office On 06/25/2015 09:26 AM, Richard Fox wrote: Thanks for the information. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work as you described. I have both MS Office and OO installed (for testing), and when I right click on open with I get about a dozen options but OO isn't one of them. Can you open OO first and then open the file with it? It's unusual that you can't find OO when you use open with. I assume you're running Windows. Richard Fox rafo...@outlook.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Question re/ using Open Office
Thanks for your help. I'll take a look at your suggestions. -Original Message- From: James Knott Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 11:32 AM To: users@openoffice.apache.org ; rafo...@outlook.com Subject: Re: Question re/ using Open Office On 06/23/2015 02:15 PM, Richard Fox wrote: I’m considering using Open Office instead of the MS products that I’ve used for years. I’ve done a slight amount of testing to look into compatibility with MS Office, and I’m not getting the results I had hoped for. Can you tell me how OO interacts with the MS world – like how do you convert documents from one format to the other. I’ve tried opening an OO document with Word and it took about 3 or 4 steps to do it. I then tried to open a Word document in OO and I was unable to. I also tried to save a Word document with an OO extension and I couldn’t to it. If there’s an easy way to migrate back and forth I would really be interested in OO and I’d gladly contribute to your development. However, I need to be able to live in both “worlds”. You should be able to open Word, Excel etc. documents without any problem. Just click on the icon and OO should open. However, if you already have MS Office installed, it might be the default application. In that case, just right click on the file and select the app you want. As for OO to MS, that depends on the version. Later versions of MS Office should be able to open ODF (the OO default) documents, but you can also export in MS formats. You can even make the MS formats the default. Richard Fox rafo...@outlook.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
