I empathize everyone's frustration with MS-Office; I still have not recovered from my frustration dealing with Windows 3.0. OpenOffice is a wonderful set of products. Alternatively, you can look at Corel's Wordperfect. It has a great feature called "reveal codes". You can view your document in the soft underbelly of nitty gritty details and edit directly in the reveal codes feature.
I just checked. It uses "open document format" so my guess is that your files might be interchangeable between OO and Wordperfect. Both have MS-Office compatibility. HTH Jim On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:28 PM, James Wilde <james.wi...@sunde-wilde.com>wrote: > > On Mar 16, 2011, at 18:22 , John Boyle wrote: > > On 3/15/2011 8:07 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: > > On 2011/03/15 4:55 PM Lisa Dee wrote: > > Larry - > > While the advice you gave was helpful, I had figured that much out... > > That advice was from James Wilde. I forwarded it to you since you are not > subscribe to the mailing list. > > the problem is that the OO is still setting as default document launcher. > There is no "Change All" choice. There is a "Always Open With" > > I think you did not exactly follow the instructions. I'll try to list them > concisely. You will have to do this for every Microsoft file type you do not > want to open in OOo. I will describe for Word .doc > > In Finder locate a .doc file. > Right click on the .doc file > Click "Get Info" > A long narrow window will open > Part way down the window is "▾ Open with:" (make sure the triangle is > pointing down" > Below that is a drop down menu. Select MS Word > Below that is "Use this application to open all documents like this one." > Click the "Change All..." button. > > This is basically the same instructions that James gave. You missed the ' > Click "Get Info" ' step. > > but as far as I can tell, that will only open that specific document - > does that mean that I have to go through each document and "Open With" - > that is truly a waste of my time! If I wasn't writing full-time it would not > be such an issue, but knowing that I will have to carry out at least 6 extra > keystrokes to open a file, rather than clicking on the document and having > it appear as it was writte n in the form that it was saved - rather > presumptuous of OO, don't you think? > > Don't go on a rant against OOo when you did not follow the instructions > given. It also makes people less inclined to provide support to you. I > wouldn't use MS office if it was given to me. > > Larry > -- > _________________________________ > Larry I. Gusaas > Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada > Website: http://larry-gusaas.com > "An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." > - Edgard Varese > > To Larry: If she is not subscribed to the list, then how come her email > shows , anyway? This is not meant as sarcasm, but I am confused as to when > someone is or is not subscribed, especially if their message shows on the > list? :-\ > > > Mail from non-subscribed posters goes to a number of moderators, who can > approve the message or not, depending upon its content. If approved, it > appears on the list. > > //James > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
