Never mind....I thought for a minute...and in Windows, mounting a filesystem = mapping a drive letter. It works now!
Thanks! -- Thank you for doing business with MLCS. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance. Sincerely, Chris MLCS Ltd. www.mlcswoodworking.com "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > OK.....so, this is basically a known issue. Does it have to do with > shortcuts in general, network shortcuts, shortcuts with certain characters? > > Also, pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean by "mounting the remote > filesystem"? > > -- > > Sincerely, > > Chris > MLCS Ltd. > www.mlcswoodworking.com > "G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 15:26 -0400, Sawdust (Chris @ MLCS) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I searched the Forums to no avail. > > > > I just installed Open Office 2.0 (latest version from website on Thursday) > on a Windows XP Pro SP2 PC with NO Microsoft Office or other office suite > installed. I set all Office formats to associate to Open Office in the > post-installation setup wizard. I have a desktop shortcut linking to an > Excel spreadsheet on a networked computer. > > > > When I click the shortcut, Open Office launches (ie splash screen > appears), but the file doesn't open (nothing else comes up after the splash > screen goes away). The nextwork path does have an _ , could this be the > issue? > > > > The file opens fine when I just open Calc first and then click the > shortcut in the "Open File" dialog. > > > > Any assistance would be very helpful. Thanks! > > > > Just to let you know. There is a problem with accessing files in the > manner you describe. There is likely an issue for this which you could > locate and vote for. I recall the workaround is to mount the remote > filesystem. > > Hope this helps. > -- > PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. > OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead > http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
