@James,
I see. It happens that Windows XP will not let you assign a different program of the same name to
be associated with the same file extension via Open With ... . When you go find the second
program, it behaves as if you already have it in the list and won't add another to the list.
This is *not* the case for Windows Vista (and therefore Windows 7 and Windows 8, I surmise). Those
will provide all of the associations without trickery.
To work around the Windows XP limitation, your trick of using soffice.exe instead of swriter.exe,
scalc.exe, etc., works great. Until there are more than two that you want to hook up to the same
extension [;<).
Changing the program-file names probably works so long as you don't change soffice.bin. I
wouldn't do that except as a last resort. (It will mess up program updates and the uninstaller,
for example.)
I have a set of screen captures for walking through this on Windows XP. I'll put them in some
mutually useful place.
- Dennis
PS: I confirmed this on a Windows XP where the install of Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 stomped on the
associations of LibreOffice 3.5.2.2.
PPS: Unfortunately, something else was stomped on so sometimes the programs get blocked and there
are multiple soffice.bin and soffice.exe instances running, but nothing useful happens. I am not
sure that is repeatable. I'm going to try installing LibreOffice 3.5 *after* the AOO 3.4.0 to see
if that is better. I suspect it might be.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org]
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 14:39
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: File associations - LibreOffice and OpenOffice on Windows 7
What I discovered in the Vista VM was that the icons are different between LibreOffice and
OpenOffice.org scalc and they appear in the Open With ... dialog. There is no confusion there as a
result. Lotus Symphony uses a different file name so there is no problem there.
I don't know whether the "choose program" dialog will allow a shortcut to be used. That's an
interesting idea though.
-----Original Message-----
From: James Knott [mailto:james.knott@rogers.com]
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 14:25
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: File associations - LibreOffice and OpenOffice on Windows 7
James Knott wrote:
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
[ ... ]
I think you already know how to do this, by using the Open With ...
context-menu and take the "Choose Default Program" option. You'll
have to find the installed files and select them. Perhaps even make
it the default at first, although you can select the program and
remove the check mark on "Always use the selected program ... ".
Thereafter, they should all be offered in the Open With ... without
having to be added. But I suspect this is where you might be
frustrated. (This is how I add WinZip to all of the ODF and OOXML
extension names so I can simplify document-forensic work.)
Got it. You gave me the idea. Instead of going into the OpenOffice
folder and selecting, for example, swriter, I selected OpenOffice and
it now appears as a choice when I right click. It also now possible
to choose any of the three to be the default app.
tnx jk
I have found another way. Change the OpenOffice files to owriter etc.
This way, OpenOffice Writer is displayed, instead of just OpenOffice.org
3.4, when right clicking. Perhaps creating a shortcut there may work too.
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