On 02/04/2008, Sarel Eksteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > My intention is to completely remove MS Office and with it MS Outlook that > is not at present my default Mail Handler. I am using Internet Explorer 7. > > Most of the time one wants to send documents directly from the software > one is using at that time i.e. Word processing. > > How do I set up OpenOffice.org to function as my default mail handler? > > Regards > > Sarel Eksteen >
OpenOffice does not include a mail program or a web browser. Instead, on Windows, it uses whatever mail program is configured as the "dafault" for your system. Ditto for web browser: if you click a link in an OpenOffice document it will invoke your default browser. Many people who use OpenOffice also use Thunderbird for mail, Lightning for calendars and Firefox for browsing the web. They are all free and they all come from "www.mozilla.org". OpenOffice can easily use Thunderbird's address book for mail merge; Thunderbird can import mail messages, address books etc. from Outlook or Outlook Express and Firefox can import boookmarks from Internet Explorer. Support for Thunderbird etc. is free via various Mozilla discussion groups. There are also lots of addons for doing useful things like filling in forms or speeding up downloads and many dictionaries for spell checking in different languages; all free. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org
