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RE: could someone test a form in OLD versions of WORD for me (preWord 2000)
Subject:RE: could someone test a form in OLD versions of WORD for me (preWord 2000) From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:"Sandy Harris" <sandyinchina -at- gmail -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:09:08 -0400
Sandy Harris said:
> One catch; don't use a default install of OO on your main
> machine, just clicking OK everywhere. This will change the
> registry so OO rather than Word loads for .doc files, OO
> rather than Excel for .xls and so on.
That problem-default was recognized some time back (too many of the same
complaint on the OOo support mailing list), so recent releases of
OpenOffice have the opposite default (OOo doesn't take over the file
associations), and a dialog during install/setup that tells you exactly
why you would make one or the other choice, and suggests that you don't
make OOo the default if you are just evaluating it.
- Kevin
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