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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. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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