John W. Kennedy wrote:
Thomas W. Cranston wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Thomas W. Cranston wrote:
Dave Barton wrote:
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 15:32 -0500, Dee Baker wrote:
Please read:
http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/ar01s04.html#FILE-ASSOCIATIONS
Dave
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I think the message "When you install Open Office, it asks you
whether you want to associate MS Office files with Open Office. In
order to not associate these MS Office file types, you must uncheck
the appropriate boxes before continuing." could be worded better
for the general public to avoid mis-understandings.
It would be much better to state that if you associate MS Office
files with Open Office, that Open office will become the Default
Program and that it will convert MS Office files to Open Office files.
No! It will not "convert" anything. For God's sake, users are
confused enough without being lied to.
It may not convert them, but it will fuck them up. At least that is
my experience, and that is the truth. That's my story, and I'm
stickin to it. Luckily, I had backed up my resumes onto another
medium, before I installed OO. I am at this moment perusing the Open
Office CD to see how I could have missed or mis-understand the warning.
Your files were not changed in any way whatsoever. They weren't even
read. The /only/ thing that happens concerning them while installing
OpenOffice.org is that, /if/ the user asks it to, the install program
instructs Windows, "From now on, when the user double-clicks on a file
named '*.doc' or '*.xls' (or whatever), open it with OpenOffice.org."
Even if that is done, you can still open the files with Microsoft
Office (assuming that you have it) either by using "Open With..." on
the file, or by starting Word or Excel (or whatever), and using "File
Open..." to get the file.
Yes you can open them, but the problem is that the contents of the
documents become mixed up. One example is that what the end of page one,
ends at the middle of page 2, etc.
Also, tables get messed up. The bottom half of text in cells is chopped
off. The borders around and lines within tables appear like double vision.
This happens whether the documents are opened in OO, or MS Word.
I won't argue about whether the documents are converted or not. For the
sake of argument, I will concede that they are not "converted".
The point that I want to make is that the MS Word documents are damaged
after they have been opened by Open Office.
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