You are an arrogant person, aren't you? I actually did read your request for update. However, I hoped you had better information than what you provided in that request.
You claim that, when you lose template file association and restore it, the templates open as templates and not as new writer files. That is true, if you re-associate them with Writer. However, if you re-associate them with Openoffice 3.2, they open correctly. Granted, this is non-intuitive, but I discovered this with five minutes of experimentation. I agree with the commentators who did not see this as a desirable added feature in Ooo, since it's so easy to do in Windows and since not even Microsoft Office has such a feature. Jomali On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org>wrote: > On 2010-05-26 3:06 PM, jomali wrote: > > Since I worked in Windows for many years before moving to a sane OS, > > and managed file associations regularly, I know that Windows does > > provide resources for associating file extensions with the programs > > to open them. What functionality does Windows lack that you want OOo > > to provide? > > A GUI interface directly in OOo that can manage the file associations > for all of the files it is capable of opening - everything from > repairing broken file associations (including associating template file > types so that they work as templates are supposed to work), to restoring > the file associations of non ODF file types that it took over at > installation time to their previous state before it took them over. > > You know - something the average USER can use and understand, and that > makes adminstering OOo a whole lot less painful. > > You didn't read my bug/feature request did you (don't answer, rhetorical > question)... > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org > >
