WARNING! OpenOffice

[rhofland at fastdial.net (Randall Hofland)]

Yes, that should work (hopefully), and I did try it, but we had transferred the
old 3G harddrive that was on its last legs to the new 20G, and not everything
that was on the old drive made it, including, it seems, the Microsoft Office
install/repair drivers (*.msi files). This unit is one of those "no OS CD"
OEM-filled specials, so I have to wait until Dell opens on Monday to see if I
can get a repair CD.

Meanwhile, I can only run my files if I first open Word or Excel and then open
the files from inside the application. Something of a pain, but doable until a
better fix comes along. Of course, this wouldn't even have been an issue if the
formatters had worked better and the opened files in OO1 been more functional!

Hate to admit it, but I still much prefer Excel to any other spreadsheet I've
used, and Word is in a dead heat with Word Perfect for the best Word processor.
Wish it weren't true. But OO may still be a good option for Linux, and just what
is needed to put it on the desktops.

Chris Tresco wrote:

> 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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