RE: [libreoffice-users] Double clicking .ODT file opens it in WordPad!

WordPad 6.1 (on Windows 7) provides less functionality for ODF documents than does Microsoft 
Office.  It is like an improved Windows Write (remember that?) with the ribbon.  It will open and 
save .docx, .odt, .rtf, and .txt.  It doesn't have text flow around images - they just break the 
text wherever inserted, and there are limiting formatting options, no styles, minimal page setup, 
bulleted lists, but no auto-numbering, etc. 

It is a nice way to make simple documents - it comes with the OS.  It is not a substitute for 
Microsoft Office Word (or LibreOffice Text) as a document producer.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Davies [mailto:tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 06:27
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Cc: bazsl@dbginc.com
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Double clicking .ODT file opens it in WordPad!

Hi :)
How good did it look in WordPad?  Was the formatting seem about right?  Did you 
have pictures or text-boxes in the file that were in about the right place in 
WordPad?  


I have only ever used WordPad as a slightly inadequate text-editor but the 
problems i have with it are because it's really a word-processor.  If it handle 
odt well then it might open up opportunities to get odf files into Word with a 
lot less hassle.  At the moment i have to set various options in 

Tools - Options
such as downgrading to the ODF 1.1 format that is used by Word 2010.  Even then 
Word just doesn't have the sophisticated options for placing pictures in 
interesting ways.  If WordPad looks like it's worth exploring then that would be 
fantastic!

Regards from
Tom :)





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From: Bazsl <bazsl@dbginc.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Mon, 20 June, 2011 0:34:32
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Double clicking .ODT file opens it in WordPad!

I uninstalled Open Office and installed LibreOffice. Now if I click on a .ODT
file it opens in WordPad instead of Writer. How can I easily fix this for
all LibreOffice apps on Win7 Pro 64 bit? Thanks.

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