Hello, Everyone on our Forum, regarding Anthony's Post. Thanks, Dan, for
trying to answer his problem, but I'm not sure the WORD/OOo interchangeability
problems are being addressed. Does anyone see the similarities to my
problem/post a couple days ago? ... i.e. the conversion factors from OOo to
Word (PDF, .SXW, .DOC, WordPad, etc.) ... or am I totally off base? I'm quite
fine if anyone tells me I'm missing the point here (at least that would help me
move on to other possible solutions).
I appreciated the posts attempting to resolve my particular problem in this
regard, but they didn't help me get a solution ... either because I'm dumb (to
which I readily admit without shame), or there's something wrong with OOo 2
Beta. I didn't have these problems with 1.1.4.
Since I couldn't resolve the problem in OOo 2 (1.9 beta), today I tried to
re-install the stable version 1.1.4. to see if I'm totally wacko about this
problem. Well, that didn't work either ... It's been so long since I installed
OOo at all, I'm having problems even trying to install the 1.1.4 too ... Gaw! I
can't imagine what the Newbies are going through.
So, if there are any "Experts" on OOo out there, please continue to try helping
us out with this Microsoft Word versus Open Office conversion. I thought
that's what this whole project is about.
Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Jun 26, 2005 9:59 PM
To: users@openoffice.org
Subject: Re: [users] Doucment Icon.?
Bottom Post
On Sunday 26 June 2005 08:41 pm, Anthony Chilco wrote:
> Hi James,
> The problem is that the icon for any particular file type is taken
> from the program that it is linked to. If you had Word on the pc and
> had doc files associated with it, then they would display the Word
> icon. As soon as you make OOo the default program for opening doc
> files, the icon will change to the OOo icon. It may be possible to
> 'fake out' Windows by creating a new document type to associate doc
> files with and have them still open with OOo. I've got XP on a
> laptop. I'll see what I can do, but I don't have much hope.
> tc
>
> James Elliott wrote:
> > I install OOo on all the computers I sell and instruct the new
> > users to: 1. save in OOo format for internal use
> > 2. save in PDF to send non-editable documents to other people
> > 3. save in M$ Word format to send editable docs to Word users
> >
> > All of these customers have Windows XP as their OS
> >
> > The customers therefore end up with a mixture of .sxw, .doc, and
> > .pdf files in their "My Documents" folder.
> >
> > The PDF docs have the default Adobe Acrobat Reader icon
> > The OOo docs have the default OOo icon
> > The Word docs also have the OOo icon
> >
> > I followed the M$ WinXP Help instructions to change the workd docs
> > icon, but the property these instructions referred to was not
> > present in the dialog box. I owuld like *.doc documents to be
> > ditinguished from true OOo *.sxw documents by having a different
> > icon.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to change an OOo icon under Windows XP?
> >
> > Many thanks, James Elliott
Does Windows XP still have WordPad? Is this the default program for
*.doc files when Word is not install if OOo is not installed? If so,
associating the *.doc files with WordPad might work.
Dan
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