Hi Guy Thank you very much for the e-mail. It is much appreciated. I have the problem that unless I have remembered to load OpenOffice., the files open in Text.edit and when I go into properties to change the 'open with' it will not accept OpenOffice as an option. However, when I start again, load Open Office, open Properties, now it says always open with OpenOffice. The next time however, if I haven't preloaded OpenOffice(i.e. clicked on the icon, waited till the three different screens come up, the third being the choose type of document screen, then minimising all three, then clicking on the required file) then it opens with text edit again and I'm back to square one!
Regards Dave Cuffe 2009/2/18 Guy Voets <nimant...@gmail.com> > 2009/2/13 David Cuffe <djccu...@gmail.com> > >> Hi >> On a PC if I open a file, open office automatically opens, and reads the >> file, and does it quickly. On the Mac, the file opens as a text file unless >> I remember to preload up open office, which takes many seconds to load, >> after which I can work away. What I want is for open office to load as soon >> as I switch on, but I do not know how to set this up. I can set it to load >> at log on, but I don't log on, I simply turn the Mac on and work away. Then >> I open a file and remember that I haven't opened up open office and have to >> cancel the text box, open open office, wait for the 45 seconds it takes to >> load, and then re-open the file. Any suggestions gratefully received. >> >> Dave Cuffe >> > > Hello Dave, > > File association is the solution, also on Mac. > Select one of the files you want to edit in OOo. Cmd-i (or apple-i) and the > file info opens. Fifth part of the window is Open with. There you choose > OpenOffice.org and specify that you want to use it with all docs of this > type. > That should do the trick. > > HTH > -- > Guy > using dutch OOo Aqua 3.0.1 on a iMac Intel DualCore Leopard > and brazilian OOo Aqua 3.0.0 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard > -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- > Dodoes can't afford to have headaches >
