Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Aack! Uninstall removes file types!

2011-07-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-07-01 8:06 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: If this is a real problem, you must never install more than one program for the same type of file. You can have only one media player, one picture editor, one pdf viewer, one browser, one editor, one of anything. Baloney. You can have as many

[libreoffice-users] Re: Aack! Uninstall removes file types!

2011-07-01 Thread Mahesh T Pai
teknow teknowledg...@gmail.com writes: My less OSS friendly colleagues decided it was LO's install process that was at fault and uninstalled it while arguing that it shouldn't be installed in the first place. That just made it worse because then additional MS Office file types were

[libreoffice-users] Re: Aack! Uninstall removes file types!

2011-07-01 Thread teknow
I got a private response that indicates I may not have made myself clear, so I am answering here. The problem I see is that uninstalling LO removes file associations MS Office had all along. In other words, though MS Office is still installed and was always the default .doc/.docx, .xls/.xlsx,

[libreoffice-users] Re: Aack! Uninstall removes file types!

2011-07-01 Thread Andreas Säger
Hi, If this is a real problem, you must never install more than one program for the same type of file. You can have only one media player, one picture editor, one pdf viewer, one browser, one editor, one of anything. Did you try to install LibreOffice before MS Office and then remove MS

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Aack! Uninstall removes file types!

2011-07-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Normally i guess the answer would be to use the MS Office Cd to repair the install or modify it. Quite how you get that onto the images you use for other machines seems to be the tricky part. Regards from Tom :) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In

[libreoffice-users] Re: Aack! Uninstall removes file types!

2011-06-30 Thread NoOp
On 06/30/2011 02:13 PM, NoOp wrote: On 06/30/2011 01:16 PM, teknow wrote: ... I first tried to fix the problem in the Windows File Types settings on machines that still had LO, but found for example that DOC files were identified as Microsoft Word Document to be opened with LO. Changing the