Re: [users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Do not want openoffice to be default progr...

2006-01-29 Thread RLShadow
I agree it could be worded better, but just to clarify, OOo does not convert MS Office files to OpenOffice.org files. That's not what associate means. In a message dated 1/29/2006 7:24:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the message When you install Open

Re: [users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Do not want openoffice to be default progr...

2006-01-29 Thread Dave Barton
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 19:33 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree it could be worded better, but just to clarify, OOo does not convert MS Office files to OpenOffice.org files. That's not what associate means. In a message dated 1/29/2006 7:24:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL

Re: [users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Do not want openoffice to be default progr...

2006-01-29 Thread John Meyer
Dave Barton wrote: Maybe a better message for the installer dialog might be: If you already have Microsoft Office installed on this computer, it is recommended that you do NOT tick the above boxes. Or something like: Clicking on these boxes will make MS Word and Excel files open in

Re: [users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Do not want openoffice to be default progr...

2006-01-29 Thread Jack L.
On 1/29/06, John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Barton wrote: Maybe a better message for the installer dialog might be: If you already have Microsoft Office installed on this computer, it is recommended that you do NOT tick the above boxes. Or something like: Clicking on these

[users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Do not want openoffice to be default progr...

2006-01-29 Thread Russell Butler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree it could be worded better, but just to clarify, OOo does not convert MS Office files to OpenOffice.org files. That's not what associate means. In a message dated 1/29/2006 7:24:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the

[users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Do not want openoffice to be default progr...

2006-01-29 Thread Randomthots
Jack L. wrote: I think it's fine. The user has to manually check the boxes and if they don't want openoffice to open MS documents, they shouldn't have checked it. It's not that hard to read and figure out what those boxes mean. You would think so, huh? But this is one of those cases where

Re: [users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Do not want openoffice to be default progr...

2006-01-29 Thread Andrew Fisk
I know this might be too much to aks of the folks who already work very had developing this program. but given the number of questions, and the quantity of verbage that you have to wade through to install any program, I don't think it is much of a shock that folks don't read (or don't