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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] Re: Question
From:       Jim Kelleher <jkelleher () jps ! net>
Date:       2003-10-31 22:08:53
Message-ID: 200310311408.53125.jkelleher () jps ! net
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Thiis to me is beginning to sound like a corrupted registry problem...
Which is not something to approch with speed aor a a easy mind.
Sigh. Beyond that I have no idea.
Happy Penguinista.
Haven't used Windoze for years now... :)

Reformat Reload...
The Redmond Mantra.

JIm TE

On Friday 31 October 2003 07:05 am, Rich wrote:
> grmh. i've never used winxp, and as far i know (from angry shouts by
> my collegues and other people :) ) a lot of things are messed up in
> there :)
>
> anyway, if it at least remotely is similar then something like
>
> tools -> options in explorer;
> tab file types
> find offending extension (some versions of windows sorted them by
> extension, some by description, so this could be trivial or hard task
> depending on that)
>
> delete it.
>
> now find some .doc or whatever was the problematic file, dblclick it.
> now follow the procedure as before (choose oo.org in the list or click
> browse (right ?) and find it. select always open with this
> application.
>
> of course, this completely removes all the possibilities (if there
> were some) to print etc the file directly from the context menu, but
> as i understand that's not required anyway.
>
>  Rich
> ------------
>
> Daniel,
> Friday, October 31, 2003, 5:00:52 PM, you wrote:
>
> DC> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:58:30PM +0200, Rich wrote:
> >> hmm, maybe helps something that worked for me in similar situation
> >> with rtf files -
> >> delete association for .doc and all other extensions that couse
> >> trouble, then open it from explorer & choose oo.org to always open it.
>
> DC> How about some instructions on how to do that?
>
>
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Jim 

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