WARNING! OpenOffice

[Chris Tresco]

I think if you just run the office repair thing in the add/remove
programs thing it will fix the file association problem.


On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 09:31, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Most Windows based products will change the file types to themselves. It 
> does not apply to an individual document, but to the file extension itself. 
> I have not installed Open Office, but during the Install procedure, there 
> should be a place where you tell it not to do this. BTW: MS Office will do 
> this also.
> For instance, .doc == Winword
>               .ppt == Power Point
>               .xls == Excel. 
> 
> Randall Hofland wrote:
> > I downloaded OpenOffice 1.0 and installed it on a Win98 workstation to
> > try it out. BIG MISTAKE!!!
> > 
> > That particular unit had MS Office 2000 already installed and a number
> > of Excel and Word documents stashed in various folders on the machine.
> > Seems that OO1 is EXTREMELY promiscuous and altered all these files to
> > open up under it and not MS Office. Now I have to go back and alter the
> > default application for each of these.
> > 
> > I have not yet tried this in Linux, or with any other office packages
> > such as my WordPerfect OS which is on both my NT and Linux workstations.
> > However, I'd like to know if anyone else has had this problem. I suspect
> > that this was an error in my installation, so IF you choose to install
> > OO1, be sure to think carefully about any global options you allow the
> > program to pursue!!!
> > 
> > Also-- OO1 is unable to use many of the XL capabilities that I love to
> > use, such as worksheet linking. I did not try to create any new
> > worksheets doing this in OO1, but since I have so many different files
> > already created in various versions of XL and Word, I am loathe to use
> > OO1 as a default application.
> > 
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