----- Original Message ----- From: James Knott<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ron Proctor<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; OpenOffice<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:06 PM Subject: Re: [users] My Wordperfect Quatro-pro taken over by Open Office
Ron Proctor wrote: > To James Knott, > Thank you for responding. This is what I wrote to Brian Barker and > his effort to help me. > > > Brian Barker, > > Thank you for your input. I appreciate your response. I know nothing > about > Open Office, but it appears that many people use it. I wanted to > try it since I did not > have Microsoft Excell at the time. But after experiencing some > glitches with my Word Perfect, I decided to remove it. James: OpenOffice is a full office suite, similar to Microsoft Office. It is possible to have both OpenOffice and Microsoft Office on the same computer, without problems, as I do at work. I have also installed OpenOffice on a computer that already had Word Perfect and again no issues. I have not had any experience with Quatro Pro. Ron: James, what is the reason a person has Open Office on their computer, if they haveM.S. Word, Excell and the full ofice suite, or the full wordPerfect offive suite? What purpose does Open Office serve a person? I was under the impression that a person would use O.O. mostly if they did not want to put up the money to buy the expensive WordPerfect or Microsoft Office Suite. > I went into "control panel" and uninstalled Open Ofice. However, it > still has influence on > my WP Quatro pro. > What it has done to my Word Perfect Quatro pro, is make my "file" menu > appear like Open Office. > To open a file, the menu opens with a "table" like " underlined > options, as O.O does. > I have done a search for Open office and about 12 files are listed as > being connected to O.O., of > which half of them are pictures I was working with at the time when I > first downloaded O.O. James: Are you saying the file menus in Quatro Pro look like OpenOffice? Ron: Yes, when I open Quatro-pro (wordPerfect calc/spread sheet program) the menu looks like Open Office, even though I have uninstalled Open Office program from my computer. Instead of having a list of menu items, without lines, QP has each menu item encased in a line, like a outlined cell line, as Open Office does on their menu. So, in other words, Open Office has taken over the look of my QP menu look. > > I have uninstalled Word Perfect, and re-installed it again to see if > this purged the system, > but Quatro pro still shows the same tale tale signs of O.O. > > Would it help to download O.O again and tell it "not to open all > programs or documents with O.O." > and then uninstall it again, to see it it then removes all residual > commands?? James: That option in OpenOffice refers to making OpenOffice the default for Microsoft Office documents, such as Word's .DOC files. Are you saving Word Perfect files in Word format? If so, that might explain some of this. The same applies to Quatro Pro and Excel files. Ron: This is a possibility also. I am not sure. I have only Word Perfect on my computer. It ask's if I want to see my document as WordPerfect or M.S. Word. I usually choose WP. My WordPerfect word processor/writer, does not seem to be affected anymore by O.O., just my Quatro-pro. > > I bought the Microsoft suite and I am concerned about installing it > and losing control to Open Office. > This is whay I am writing to get feed back from you. I realize none > of us can fully predict what a > computer program will do. Your input may be of help to me, if you > know of any answers to this > challenge. James: as I mentioned above, you can have both on the same system. However, if you install Microsoft Office, you will have to reset your file associations, if you want OpenOffice to be the default application for Microsoft Office files. This is easy to do. Ron: I want M.S. Word to be my set-up file associations for all created Word files and WordPerfect to be the file association for all created WP files. is this an automatic thing that happens, when Open Office is also on the computer? I recall, when I downloaded Open Ofice, it asked if I wanted O.O. to be the default or something like that. I agreed to it, since I wanted to use a spread sheet that acted like MS Excell, and I did not have Excell on my computer. it was for this reason I first downloaded Open Office. aparantly, O.O. became my default extension for all spread sheet applications, and thus the frustration I am having on how my WP Quatro-pro is looking now like Open Office. > > Don't get me wrong, I have no intention of bashing Open Office. I am glad to see programmers > willing to offer alternatives to the public, when Microsoft is in total control of most of the > computer systems. Thanks to all > the wonderful people that help us have alternatives. > James: While I don't know what caused your problems, sometimes Windows goes "nuts" and causes all sorts of problems. A couple of years ago, I was at IBM providing Windows and application support for a very large customer. All too often the only fix was to reinstall. In fact, it was necessary so frequently, that the customer had an easy to use process for a a user to get their system re-imaged. I have never seen that sort of behaviour in Linux or OS/2 ( I used OS/2 for many years and also provided 3rd level OS/2 support at IBM). Please respond only to the mail list ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) and not directly to me. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org<http://www.openoffice.org/>>
