[AT] Off topic Open Office and computer associations.

[Steve W.]

>> Open Windows Explorer, and go to Tools -> Folder Options.  Click on
>> the File Types tab to get to your file associations.
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> Vaughn Miller
>> Dillsburg PA
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:29 PM, charlie hill
>> <charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>>> I just downloaded the OpenOffice open source, freeware version of 
>>> Microsoft
>>> Office.  I'll let you know how it works out.  If anyone wants it go to
>>> OpenOffice.org.
>>>
>>> My question is how, with Windows XP, do you set up the software
>>> associations?  In other words how do you tell the computer what software 
>>> you
>>> want it to use to open a file?  Somehow mine has gotten screwed up.  Even
>>> before I downloaded OpenOffice when I try to open a PDF file the computer
>>> will ask me what I want to use to open it.  I have Adobe reader V. 9 
>>> loaded
>>> but the computer isn't finding it.  If I try to open a Powerpoint
>>> presentation I get the same question.  Before I was using Microsofts
>>> Powerpoint viewer but the machine won't find it.  In both cases I have to
>>> store the file, open the application and then open the file from inside 
>>> the
>>> application.  I know that's not right.
>>>
>>> I hoped that when I loaded this Open Office package that the problem 
>>> would
>>> go away but it's still the same.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help you guys can share.  Sorry for the O/T.  Please spare
>>> yourself the trouble of telling me to buy a Mac or load Linux or Red Hat 
>>> or
>>> whatever.  I want to work with what I have.
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>>

Charlie you can also select a file. Say a .pdf file. RIGHT click on it 
and select the "open with" tag. Then select the program you want to open 
it with. Make that the default program.

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Steve W.
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