Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OOo link opens during LibO install

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From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Sat, 26 February, 2011 15:36:12
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OOo link opens during LibO install

On 02/26/2011 08:46 AM, giga wrote:
> still the same installing 3.3.1
Do you have OOo and LibreOffice on the same computer, with OOo being installed 
first?

With Ubuntu, even if LibreOffice was the resent installed package that used 
those document formats as their default, until I either removed OOo or I use 
"right-click/open with" option, it will default to OOo.  Since I no longer use 
OOo, I removed it off my computer.  I know there is a way to change the default 
programs that launch the individual file formats, but I do not remember what it 
is.  Maybe you will have to do a similar "open with" option to choose which 
program you need, but maybe you will have to link it directly to the "Program" 
folder's .exe files for Writer, Calc, Impress, etc..

This may be needed every time you add another package that uses the ODF formats, 
but hopefully with Windows you will not need to do it after you install an 
upgrade to LibreOffice and already have the default launching programs set for 
LibreOffice.



Hi :)
In almost all operating systems (just excluding Mac) you can change the default 
program that opens specific formats of documents by finding one of those 
documents and right-click.

The first "Open with ..." you can see directly in the right-click menu only 
affects the current opening this time but leaves the default unchanged.  Go down 
to "Properties" at the bottom of the right-click menu and find the deeper "Open 
with ..." in there to change the default.  


Once the default is changed then simply double-clicking on that format will open 
document in the newly selected program but "Open with ..." still appears in the 
right-click menu and now it will offer more intelligent programs first without 
you needing to dig around so deeply for the right ones.  


Certain files will still try to open with the previous program because even 
files with the same extension (such as ".doc") might still be a slightly 
different format.  So, you might have to repeat the process 2 or 3 times 
although the 1st time you do this will have covered perhaps 95% of the documents 
you normally use.

Uninstalling the program you don't want to use any more (at least for a while) 
does shift the default for all appropriate formats.  Very very rarely i have had 
a machine misbehave a bit but convincing it using the above method nudges it 
back into behaving on those rare exceptions.

In Windows uninstalling a program tends to leave traces of the program laying 
around in various places but there is no safe way of removing all traces.  
"Registry Cleaners" tend to be malware or can cause unexpected problems and 
reinstalling Windows is likely to lose valued data and documents.

The main problem with uninstalling programs in Windows is if you ever need to 
re-install them.  Finding the licence/product key/code and the "proper" Cd/dvd 
to install from is all very difficult.  However, OpenOffice and LibreOffice are 
both free and can be installed from a variety of media including over the 
internet so it is not the worry that most Windows programs are.  Just uninstall 
and re-install later if required :)

Regards from
Tom :)



      
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