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File associations - LibreOffice and OpenOffice on Windows 7
I previously installed OpenOffice on my computer and recently
LibreOffice. I have also installed the various free Microsoft viewers.
One thing I've noticed is that I can't have both LO and OO associated
with the various file types. Please note that I'm just talking about
association, not default association, so that when I right click on a
file I can chose from among LO, OO or the Microsoft viewer. At the
moment, my choices are just LO and the viewer. If I want to use
OpenOffice, I have to open the app first and then the file.
Any way around this?
tnx jk
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Re: File associations - LibreOffice and OpenOffice on Windows 7
Posted by James Knott <ja...@rogers.com>.
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> You can try to add AOO associations manually, but it might not be effective.
>
> The problem is that LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, and Apache OpenOffice all use the same (old Star Office) names for the individual application programs. Even if you succeed in having multiple swriter.exe associations, for example, you may have trouble telling them apart [;<).
>
> 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
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: File associations - LibreOffice and OpenOffice
on Windows 7
Posted by James Knott <ja...@rogers.com>.
James Knott wrote:
> Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
>> You can try to add AOO associations manually, but it might not be
>> effective.
>>
>> The problem is that LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, and Apache
>> OpenOffice all use the same (old Star Office) names for the
>> individual application programs. Even if you succeed in having
>> multiple swriter.exe associations, for example, you may have trouble
>> telling them apart [;<).
>>
>> 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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RE: File associations - LibreOffice and OpenOffice on Windows 7
Posted by "Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>.
You can try to add AOO associations manually, but it might not be effective.
The problem is that LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, and Apache OpenOffice all use the same (old Star Office) names for the individual application programs. Even if you succeed in having multiple swriter.exe associations, for example, you may have trouble telling them apart [;<).
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.)
- Dennis
PS: I just got this working for .odds on a Vista configuration that has OpenOffice 3.3.0, Symphony 3.0.1, and LibreOffice 3.4.3 installed.
PPS: Installing Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 seems to steal the default file associations, no matter who has them. Because of that I tend not to keep it around on any configurations where I want to use other ODF-supporting programs. (When uninstalled, AOO 3.4.0 leaves no associations behind.) I haven't tried the above procedure to get the other associations back. That's out of pique. Let me know if it works for you.
-----Original Message-----
From: James Knott [mailto:james.knott@rogers.com]
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 13:14
To: OpenOffice
Subject: File associations - LibreOffice and OpenOffice on Windows 7
I previously installed OpenOffice on my computer and recently
LibreOffice. I have also installed the various free Microsoft viewers.
One thing I've noticed is that I can't have both LO and OO associated
with the various file types. Please note that I'm just talking about
association, not default association, so that when I right click on a
file I can chose from among LO, OO or the Microsoft viewer. At the
moment, my choices are just LO and the viewer. If I want to use
OpenOffice, I have to open the app first and then the file.
Any way around this?
tnx jk
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Re: File associations - LibreOffice and OpenOffice on Windows 7
Posted by Regina Henschel <rb...@t-online.de>.
Hi James,
James Knott schrieb:
> I previously installed OpenOffice on my computer and recently
> LibreOffice. I have also installed the various free Microsoft viewers.
> One thing I've noticed is that I can't have both LO and OO associated
> with the various file types. Please note that I'm just talking about
> association, not default association, so that when I right click on a
> file I can chose from among LO, OO or the Microsoft viewer. At the
> moment, my choices are just LO and the viewer. If I want to use
> OpenOffice, I have to open the app first and then the file.
>
> Any way around this?
In WinXP you had the option to add actions to the context menu. The UI
to do this was removed in Vista and Windows 7. You now have to edit the
registry yourself or you should look whether the application ExtMan
(http://www.extman.com/) can help you.
Kind regards
Regina
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RE: File associations - LibreOffice and OpenOffice on Windows 7
Posted by "Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>.
Vista, and Windows 7 allow end users to establish more programs for the Open With ... context menu without requiring any special tools or registry manipulation. The renaming of the option to be about choosing Defaults is misleading. You can establish an additional program for one execution and it is remembered for the context menu. I have not checked to see whether there is an Administrator privileges requirement though.
- Dennis
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From: Rod Lockwood [mailto:rodlockwood@provide.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 05:51
To: ooo-users@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: File associations - LibreOffice and OpenOffice on Windows 7
W7 Does not have the file types tab that XP had. However, you can download
the File Types Manager
(http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/file_types_manager.html) and use it to
create a second open option from the default. Say you want LO to be the
default, then you might add an "Open in OO" option. I used this for my
text files dilemma where I wanted Notepad for quick and dirty editing or
viewing and my text editor for when I want to edit polished files.
If you are familiar with editing file types in XP, it is fairly similar in
File Types Manager. Mostly it is that the interface is different.
Otherwise you would have to edit the registry directly.
--
Rod Lockwood <ro...@provide.net>
On Mon, 21 May 2012 16:13:49 -0400, James Knott <ja...@rogers.com>
wrote:
> I previously installed OpenOffice on my computer and recently
> LibreOffice. I have also installed the various free Microsoft viewers.
> One thing I've noticed is that I can't have both LO and OO associated
> with the various file types. Please note that I'm just talking about
> association, not default association, so that when I right click on a
> file I can chose from among LO, OO or the Microsoft viewer. At the
> moment, my choices are just LO and the viewer. If I want to use
> OpenOffice, I have to open the app first and then the file.
>
> Any way around this?
>
> tnx jk
>
>
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Re: File associations - LibreOffice and OpenOffice on Windows 7
Posted by Rod Lockwood <ro...@provide.net>.
W7 Does not have the file types tab that XP had. However, you can download
the File Types Manager
(http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/file_types_manager.html) and use it to
create a second open option from the default. Say you want LO to be the
default, then you might add an "Open in OO" option. I used this for my
text files dilemma where I wanted Notepad for quick and dirty editing or
viewing and my text editor for when I want to edit polished files.
If you are familiar with editing file types in XP, it is fairly similar in
File Types Manager. Mostly it is that the interface is different.
Otherwise you would have to edit the registry directly.
--
Rod Lockwood <ro...@provide.net>
On Mon, 21 May 2012 16:13:49 -0400, James Knott <ja...@rogers.com>
wrote:
> I previously installed OpenOffice on my computer and recently
> LibreOffice. I have also installed the various free Microsoft viewers.
> One thing I've noticed is that I can't have both LO and OO associated
> with the various file types. Please note that I'm just talking about
> association, not default association, so that when I right click on a
> file I can chose from among LO, OO or the Microsoft viewer. At the
> moment, my choices are just LO and the viewer. If I want to use
> OpenOffice, I have to open the app first and then the file.
>
> Any way around this?
>
> tnx jk
>
>
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