On Sat November 5 2005 22:35, + Stan Fineman wrote:
> Dear OpenOffice,
>
> I recently took a look at OpenOffice and then decided to uninstall. Despite
> this, it has taken over my Word documents and prevented me from converting
> documents to pdfs. I received pdf converter with my purchase of OmniPage
> and it seems it no longer recognizes "Word" files, which are in fact now in
> My Computer as OO files. In any case I wish to remove whatever is on my
> system that takes docs over as OO docs.
>
> Word files created before I downloaded OO are taken over as OO docs and new
> ones are taken over.
>
> Please advise asap how to remove whatever remains on my system (XP pro, and
> Office software).
Hi Stan,
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On Sun November 6 2005 00:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It sounds like your file associations have been changed, such that .doc and
> .xls (etc.) files are associated with OpenOffice.org. There was a question
> during installation that asked you whether you wanted to do that, which you
> may have inadvertently indicated you wanted.
>
> You didn't say what operating system you're on, but if it's Windows (which
> is the only one I'm familiar with), you should be able to get them back to
> the way they were before by doing the following:
>
> Find a Word file (a .doc file).
> Right click on it
> Choose "Open with", then "Choose program"
> Select Microsoft Word, and check the box that says "Always use the selected
> program to open this type of file"
> Click "OK"
>
> (If you have Excel or Powerpoint files, you'd need to do the same thing
> with a file of each of those types also.)
>
> Dick, Webster, NY
>
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