[Solved] OpenOffice removed from 'Open With' menu

[ekaruna42]

I run OpenOffice 4.1.2 in OSX El Capitan.

I do a lot of work in TeXShop with .tex files and up until recently, OpenOffice was one of the programs in the 'open with' menu for .tex files. A couple days ago it disappeared. As far as I'm aware there haven't been any updates of either El Capitan or OpenOffice recently to cause this. I can still select 'other' and go and pick OpenOffice from a list of all the applications, but this is tedious to have to do every time. I DON'T want to change the default application (TeXShop), as I still use that most of the time, but I use OpenOffice to get a word count (this is something I need for work) and it's just so much simpler to have it as an option in my 'open with' menu.

I contacted Apple and they tried a few things (boot in safe mode, changing OpenOffice to the default program, then changing back) but nothing helped. It would appear that OpenOffice is no longer recognised as a viable option/text editor (can this be a file association thing?) The programs which DO show up as options are a couple LaTeX-related ones, TextEdit and Ulysses.
The only general fixes I found online were for older version of OSX, and also rather complicated.

Does anyone know any way to get OpenOffice back in the 'open with' menu?

[MrProgrammer]

Hi, and welcome to the forum.

Does anyone know any way to get OpenOffice back in the 'open with' menu?

Please search first before posting. Mac new open with menu

http://apple.stackexchange.com/question ... -with-menu

If this solved your problem please go to your first post use the Edit button and add [Solved] to the start of the title. You can select the green checkmark icon at the same time.

[ekaruna42]

Thanks. I did do a few searches first but didn't manage to find anything that worked for El Capitan. With a bit of fiddling from that link it seems to be working now, so thanks.