In news:4bd30416.8070...@the-martin-byrd.net, RA Brown <rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net> typed: > Manuel Barros wrote: >> Hello everybody. Dear user helpers, let's suppose that I >> use separate main files for odt and ods works and that I >> have been working on an xxx.ods file and then I have >> closed OOo application. If then I need to work on an >> xxx.odt file, when trying to open it, the files that will >> appear to be chosen will not be odt files but ods files, >> because ods was the type of file I have been working >> previously. Although I have separate files where I keep >> ods files and odt files, I think this happens because this >> is the philosophy of OOo itself, as I am not able to tell >> OOo writer to look for the odt main file when opening >> writer application. I think this is the problem that >> happens often with people who comes from Microsoft, >> because there you can "inform" Word program where to look >> for Word files. I know a little of OOo, and if someone >> tells me I am wrong and that there is a way to solve this >> matter, I would became a more happy user of OOo. Regards. >> Manuel Barros > > Hi Manuel, > > I am not quite sure what you asking here. OpenOffice.org > as well as Word looks in the "Documents folder" for files. If your using a > different location for different types of > documents the you will have to 'browse" for them each time. > Under Tools > Options > Paths you can set the base > directory that OpenOffice.org will start in when looking > for documents to open. > The easiest way I have found to open documents is go to the > location and open it from there, as I have documents > scattered across several folders on several disk. > > Hope this helps some. > > ps. Please start your own thread and not hijack someone > else's. > Andy
Right: This needs to be a brand new thread! In any case, I think he's referring to opening Writer and then opening, say, an .ots file. It'll open in Calc instead of in Writer since it's a calc file, where Word would attempt to open an Excel file in Word. Twayne` --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
