Fabrizio De Cesare wrote:
I am used to write text by Microsoft Office (MO). Recently, I was
suggested to use OpenOffice (OO). I downloaded it, but after that, all
the icons of MO files disappeared and were changed in anonymous icons
by my Apple OS X 10.4. Furthermore, my email software (Eudora) stop
recognizing MO attached files as MO files but it changed them into
unknown files (although they were MO files), although I didn't change
settings as to use OO as default software to open attached files.
Moreover, any change in email settings to set a different default
software was completely ineffective.
Is there any extension or preferences automatically installed after OO
software download that changed all the setting in my own computer?
If not, what is the problem? Is there any incompatibility between MO
and OO, so that I must remove MO software?
If I had to choose between MO and OO as office software, how could I
remove OO, in case? Is there any uninstaller available (no uninstaller
was included in the pack downloaded from web)?
Please let me know soon
Fabrizio De Cesare
I'm not on a Mac, so I can't really address the specifics here, but the
only thing that should have changed was the file associations. That
shouldn't have meant "anonymous" icons, though, just the ones that
belong to the OOo equivalents of the MS Office programs. Email programs
often have their own controls for the associations, though, and it
sounds as if those are the ones you're concerned with. What is your
email client? How did you try to change the email settings? Were you
able to browse to the executable OOo files? If you save the attachments
somewhere else, can you open them either by double-clicking them, or by
opening an appropriate application (word or Writer, for example) and
specifying them?
As for uninstalling, you would do that the same way as you would any
other program that doesn't have a specific uninstall option. The only
issue I can think of is that if Quickstarter is active, you have to exit
it first. But the two office suites can both be operational on the same
computer, they don't interfere with each other.
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