Hi :)
It is smart to have an archive manager in the context/right-click menu for many
different purposes such as compressing a collection of files ready to email or
whatever. WinZip is probably still the best archive manager in Windows.
I think the "make this default" option sets it so that the specific file-type is
opened by the selected program using a double-click rather than a right-click
from hence forth. Or at least until you use the same option to change the
default again. There are usually quite a few sub-categories of any particular
format so changing, for example, "docX" to Writer using this method might not
cover ALL ".docX"s.
It's interesting to hear the odf can be opened with an archive manager. I knew
docXs can be but didn't know odts could too. Is odt an Xml format? I seem to
remember hearing it is but i'm not sure. I tend to stick with doc (without the
X) for greater compatibility with users of older versions of MS Office.
Also i don't know whether being non-Admin in Windows makes a difference to how
the "Open with ..." thing works in Windows. Generally it is safer to create a
normal user account for normal daily use and then only use the
Admin/Root/Super-User account for specific tasks. Sadly, it doesn't make
Windows much safer as programs tend to dip in and out of Admin level for no
really good reason. Still not opening web-pages, emails (and any files from
other people) as Admin user does reduce the chance of malware and other attacks
from being so effective.
Regards from
Tom :)
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From: Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Fri, 10 June, 2011 21:11:04
Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Windows "Open with"
I've had no trouble making that work. Typically, I can open any of my
.odt/.ods/ ..., files in any of Microsoft Word, whatever version of OO.o/LO that
is installed on the same machine, and WinZip using the context menu and "Open
With ...". That is, the different ways I have opened an .odt in the past become
added to the "Open With ..." menu. I've even had different version of
OpenOffice.org in the context menu, but it is hard to tell them apart so I don't
try that any longer.
I usually have to train "Open With ..." by going to the application the hard way
(browse for it in Program Files) the first time, but it seems to remember after
that. Remember not to check "make this the default" though.
I currently am running in an administrator account on all of the places where I
do this. I don't know if that is a factor in getting "Open With ..." to stick
or not.
- Dennis
PS: I put WinZip on the context menu because I do document forensics work in
checking interoperability problems and inspecting for how ODF is handled for
particular cases.
-----Original Message-----
From: John B [mailto:johnb@email2.me]
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 06:46
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Windows "Open with"
To open a selected Document with LibreOffice does anyone know how to
make LibraOffice appear in the Windows "Open With" (and stay there).
Even when I use the "browse" within the "open with" , then locate
LibreOffice manually, it still does not work, as when I click on
LibreOffice or Writer (applications), its ignored and the system jumps
back to the browsing list.
Also Libra Office does not appear in the recommended programs list,
whilst OpenOffice does and works fine.
Windows XP pro sp3
Libre Office 3.3 & 3.4
John B
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