Hi Paul,
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Subject: Unexpected Consequences From: "Paul Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 19:19:19 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Good day to all of you,
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_Background:_
I belong to a "Learning in Retirement" organization, the members of which need to occasionally send me a Microsoft Word Template. (I have a Wintel clone and use both MS Word and Corel Word Perfect, preferring the latter.)
Some of our members have Macs, with a variety of software, some of which is not able to handle the Word Template. On these machines I downloaded and installed Open Office.
Because some of our members have difficulty in using the "Save As" dropdown to send me a properly formatted file, I decided to install OpenOffice on my machine, so that I could open their attachments.
All went well until I rebooted after my install.
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_Unexpected Consequences_
The icons for the few files I have on my desktop changed to the Open Office Icon.
More troublesome: When I click on a Word or Excel e-mail attachment, instead of opening, as it used to, in MSWord or Excel, now OpenOffice opens and opens the attachment. My dial-up modem is slow enough as it is and this just adds more delay in doing my stuff.
I have spent some time looking in StartUp and Win.ini in MSConfig to see if I could figure out what was going on, but no luck. I really want to use OpenOffice when I need it, especially the "export PDF" function, which is really cool, but don't want to live with the other situation. I can always uninstall OO, but would prefer not to.
Can anyone tell me how to not have OpenOffice as my default?
Thanks,
Paul Dickey
Philomath, OR
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It sounds as though when Open Office was installed it was set up as the default program to open Word and other docs. You should be able to right click on a file before opening it and select 'Open With' and choose the program you want - otherwise if you cannot find the program you want in the list you can with Win XP choose which program you want to use to open a particular type of file and you can set windows to always use this program by selecting the little box in the bottom left hand corner of the select program screen. Doing this should also sort out your problems with attachments too.
I assume you are using Win XP - but the advice should work for earlier versions of windows too.
Hope this helps.
Alex
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