Re: [users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-27 Thread ken green
On Fri, August 26, 2005 11:48 am, G. Roderick Singleton said: > That will teach me to try to help in the middle of a thread. Sorry. > Not a problem. I was confused rather than offended/bothered. I'd prefer you helping in the middle (and me having to explain my environment twice) than not helping.

Re: [users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-26 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 21:01 -0500, ken green wrote: > On 2005-08-25 1:00 PM, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > So you are using OOo1.1.x. Wish you had said so and I also wish that you > > had told us which Windows release with which you need help. > > This is the first line of my original post: >

Re: [users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-26 Thread Sigrid Kronenberger
Dale Erwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:52:23 -0500: > Doug Thompson wrote: > > Oh, > > > > swriter.exe, scalc.exe, simpress.exe, sbase.exe. sdraw.exe are the ones > > I'm sure of. The first three are for certain what you want. They are > > all in "Program Files/OpenOffi

Re: [users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-25 Thread Doug Thompson
'Tis true that the files are not in 1.1.4. To the best of my memory, they have been present in all the 1.9.xxx beta candidates, not just 1.9.122. But it wasn't discovered until after I had written my response what version was in question. Did you have a point to make? DT Dale Erwin wrote:

Re: [users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-25 Thread ken green
On 2005-08-25 12:11 PM, Severin Greimel wrote: I'm only guessing, but you might be running into the problem as described here: http://supportforum.sun.com/staroffice/index.php?t=msg&th=1196&start=0&rid=2069 Thanks for the link (and to everyone who tried to help). I wasn't able to get to the

Re: [users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-25 Thread ken green
On 2005-08-25 1:00 PM, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: So you are using OOo1.1.x. Wish you had said so and I also wish that you had told us which Windows release with which you need help. This is the first line of my original post: > I am using OOo 1.1.4 on Windows XP Pro. -- Ken Green ---

Re: [users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-25 Thread Dale Erwin
Doug Thompson wrote: Oh, swriter.exe, scalc.exe, simpress.exe, sbase.exe. sdraw.exe are the ones I'm sure of. The first three are for certain what you want. They are all in "Program Files/OpenOffice.org/programs" in W98. Doug On my machine, these *.exe files only exist in version 1.9.122

Re: [users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-25 Thread Doug Thompson
Oh, swriter.exe, scalc.exe, simpress.exe, sbase.exe. sdraw.exe are the ones I'm sure of. The first three are for certain what you want. They are all in "Program Files/OpenOffice.org/programs" in W98. Doug ken green wrote: On 2005-08-25 10:07 AM, Doug Thompson wrote: OK. I'll tell you

Re: [users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-25 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 11:03 -0500, ken green wrote: > On 2005-08-25 10:51 AM, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > If you want to use soffice as the target then you will have to specify > > which module. e.g. soffice -writer. Better might be to look in Program > > Files\OpenOffice.org*\program\ to see

Re: [users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-25 Thread Javier Rivera
ken green escribió: Can you confirm whether or not the modules have their own executables I can point to? The modules don't have their own executables in the standard instalation. Some linux distributions (like Mandriva) do add those executables to their OOo version, but ,in windows, I had n

Re: [users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-25 Thread Severin Greimel
On Thursday 25 August 2005 16:33, ken green wrote: > I am using OOo 1.1.4 on Windows XP Pro. > > I see many posts about people not wanting their MS Office documents > associated with OpenOffice. (ie: Help! My office documents don't open in > Office any more!) > > I want the opposite. I want .doc an

Re: [users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-25 Thread ken green
On 2005-08-25 10:51 AM, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: If you want to use soffice as the target then you will have to specify which module. e.g. soffice -writer. Better might be to look in Program Files\OpenOffice.org*\program\ to see if there are items such as swriter, scalc et cetera and use then

Re: [users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-25 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 10:38 -0500, ken green wrote: > On 2005-08-25 10:07 AM, Doug Thompson wrote: > > OK. I'll tell you it doesn't. > > One of the early screens in the installation asks which M$O files you > > want OOo to open by default. There are three selections, one each for > > M$Word, M$

Re: [users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-25 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thursday 25 August 2005 10:38 am, ken green wrote: > On 2005-08-25 10:07 AM, Doug Thompson wrote: > > OK. I'll tell you it doesn't. > > One of the early screens in the installation asks which M$O files > > you want OOo to open by default. There are three selections, one > > each for M$Word, M$

Re: [users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-25 Thread ken green
On 2005-08-25 10:07 AM, Doug Thompson wrote: OK. I'll tell you it doesn't. One of the early screens in the installation asks which M$O files you want OOo to open by default. There are three selections, one each for M$Word, M$Excel, and M$PowerPoint. Make sure they are all checked. I stated

Re: [users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-25 Thread Doug Thompson
OK. I'll tell you it doesn't. One of the early screens in the installation asks which M$O files you want OOo to open by default. There are three selections, one each for M$Word, M$Excel, and M$PowerPoint. Make sure they are all checked. I believe that to correct an existing installation, yo

Re: [users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-25 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 09:41 -0500, ken green wrote: > Follow up... > > I just installed OpenOffice on a machine that already had MS Office > installed on it, and EVERYTHING WORKS THE WAY I WANT. > > Please, please, please somebody tell me that OpenOffice does not require > MS Office in order to

Re: [users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-25 Thread ken green
Follow up... I just installed OpenOffice on a machine that already had MS Office installed on it, and EVERYTHING WORKS THE WAY I WANT. Please, please, please somebody tell me that OpenOffice does not require MS Office in order to work the way I want. -- Ken Green -

[users] file associations with OOo

2005-08-25 Thread ken green
I am using OOo 1.1.4 on Windows XP Pro. I see many posts about people not wanting their MS Office documents associated with OpenOffice. (ie: Help! My office documents don't open in Office any more!) I want the opposite. I want .doc and .xls and .ppt files to open in OpenOffice. Now, I *can*