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re: How do I add programs to the ''Open With'' list?'
Thursday, August 18, 2005 at 6:29 pm
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Posted by Frederick Tang (1 messages posted)

The modifying registry option didn't work for me... :(
I ran thru the registry instructions markus gave, but as soon as I double-click the 
doc file, OpenOffice starts up and the registry settings I changed was modified.

What I think is happening is, when OpenOffice was first installed, it asked whether 
you want it to be the default program to open Microsoft Word/Excel/Powerpoint files. 
Some of us chose 'Yes', and that's why this is happening.

After reading the OpenOffice Help files, it recommended to run OpenOffice Setup > 
Modify, to disable such file associations. For details of the steps, see OpenOffice 
> Help > Content > File Association > For Microsoft Office.

The Setup file should be sitting in Program Files > OpenOffice > ... It is different 
from the one you used to install OpenOffice ~ weird...

Hope this works for you!

On Thursday, April 29, 2004 at 2:18 pm, John Miller Crawford wrote:

>Thanks muchly for that, Joni! Brilliant little utility!

>

>Also discovered BaxBex's bxNewFolder for adding a 'New Folder' icon to the Explorer 

>toolbar, solving what has always seemed to me to be Windows biggest annoyance (www.baxbex.com/products.html)

>

>jmc

>

>

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How do I add programs to the ''Open With'' list?' (Ed: Mon, May 26, 2003, 2:38 pm)

re: How do I add programs to the ''Open With'' list?' (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Mon, May 26, 2003, 3:08 pm)

re: How do I add programs to the ''Open With'' list?' (Ed: Tue, May 27, 2003, 4:14 pm)

re: How do I add programs to the ''Open With'' list?' (md: Wed, Jun 4, 2003, 7:22 pm)

re: How do I add programs to the ''Open With'' list?' (Rat: Fri, Jul 4, 2003, 7:14 am)

re: How do I add programs to the ''Open With'' list?' (md: Fri, Jul 4, 2003, 12:38 pm)

re: How do I add programs to the ''Open With'' list?' (md: Tue, Jul 8, 2003, 9:21 am)

re: How do I add programs to the ''Open With'' list?' (markus: Tue, Jul 29, 2003, 3:40 am)

re: How do I add programs to the ''Open With'' list?' (John Miller Crawford: Thu, Apr 29, 2004, 2:00 pm)

re: How do I add programs to the ''Open With'' list?' (Thomas Hansen: Thu, Oct 26, 2006, 2:15 am)

re: How do I add programs to the ''Open With'' list?' (Joni: Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 7:21 am)

re: How do I add programs to the ''Open With'' list?' (John Miller Crawford: Thu, Apr 29, 2004, 2:18 pm)

re: How do I add programs to the ''Open With'' list?' (Frederick Tang: Thu, Aug 18, 2005, 6:29 pm)

re: How do I add programs to the ''Open With'' list?' (magda: Wed, Jun 4, 2008, 8:26 am)

re: How do I add programs to the ''Open With'' list?' (chssastry: Mon, Jun 16, 2008, 4:24 am)

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