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Open Office
aardvaak
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I have installed Open Office on my laptop and removed the trail version of Office 2007.
Can someone please tell me how I make Open Office the default when I open my Docs. files?
Can someone please tell me how I make Open Office the default when I open my Docs. files?
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You need to change the file association. There's probably several ways, but in XP you can do it via Windows Explorer, Tools, Folder Options, File Types, then find the .doc extension and point it at the OO word processor.
It will no doubt be similar in Vista, but all the names will be different for no good reason...0 -
Easy way: Find the Doc file, right click on it, go to Open With, Find the Open Office Word Equivalent (Sorry, I don't know what it is, I use OSX with Pages), and tick the always use this program to open this file type (or something like that, a long time since I used a PC) box.
This will then change the settings for all .Doc files.0
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