[Solved] How to Open MS Office files with OOo

lovebears · Post by **lovebears** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:13 am

My microsoft office word 2003 stopped working because a window popped up and said I needed a sku112.cab file and I didn't know what to do. I always opened my email files with microsoft word when people sent me a file. So I downloaded Openoffice but I can't open a file with it. It is a doc file and when I type the file name it it doesn't recognize it.Can anyone help me? It would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Post by **TheGurkha** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:18 am

Hi and welcome to the forums.

You need to tell Windows what program to use to open what type of files. This is called File Association.
Running this utility should set the associations correctly: OOoAssociation Utility.

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lovebears · Post by **lovebears** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 12:27 pm

Thank you so much. I did that and I have another question. I had a email file that was songbirds. It opened the file but there was no music. It said read only. I clicked on insert and object but it wouldn't click on music. Are all these programs read only? Thanks for any help

Post by **TheGurkha** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:00 pm

Do you mean that there was a sound file attachment to the email? Or a sound lcip in a document, or what?

lovebears · Post by **lovebears** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:46 pm

yes there was a sound file attachment to the email.

Post by **TheGurkha** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:53 pm

What type of file was it? If it is a .wav or .mp3 or similar sound file, then it wouldn't open in OOo it would open in whatever appropriate player you had installed on your PC.

lovebears · Post by **lovebears** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:03 pm

It is a doc file. When it opens it is a slide show showing songbirds with barabara striesdand singing

lovebears · Post by **lovebears** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:04 pm

When microsoft office word 2003 was working for me it would open in microsoft word

Post by **TheGurkha** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:15 pm

Do you know what the embedded media type is?

(That is, it is a .doc file with something inserted into it - I'm wondering what the 'inserted thing' is.)

lovebears · Post by **lovebears** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:39 pm

I don't know how to find what is inserted.

Post by **RoryOF** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:42 pm

lovebears wrote:yes there was a sound file attachment to the email.

If it is an attachment, what is the type of it? Right click on it, and select Properties. We need to know the three letter extension.

lovebears · Post by **lovebears** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:10 pm

gif Is that what I'am looking for? I don't know hardly anything about computers

Post by **RoryOF** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:15 pm

.gif is the picture part. Is there perhaps anotherr, maybe .wav or .mp3, perhaps of the same name or the name of the Streisand song.

Edit: if you double click on the .gif file you probably will get the bird picture.

lovebears · Post by **lovebears** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:55 pm

all i could find was songbirds.pps it said it opens with microsoft power point presentation. Thanks for your help

Post by **RoryOF** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:29 pm

Sart OpenOffice Impress, amd try to load Songbirds.pps Then Select Slideshow / Slideshow and see what happens.

lovebears · Post by **lovebears** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:05 pm

The slide show worked fine but no music

lovebears · Post by **lovebears** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:43 pm

I had a friend email me a pps slide show with music and when it came up there was music but the slide show didn't work and when I clicked on the slide show it started working but the music stopped. Is there somewhere I can click on sound when the slide show begins? Sound is greyed out. I emailed her songbirds and it played on her computer. I've been googling this problem and other people has had this problem but I don't know how they fixed it. This is what one person said but I don't know what these things are and are they safe and where I would get them or how would I know if I have them? This is what they asked. Do you have all of the suggests installed for impress they are:

gstreamer0.10-plugins-base, gstreamer0.10-plugins-good, gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

If not then install them and see if it works. Should I download these? If so do you know where I can get them. I'm so sorry for all the trouble but I appreciate it so much for any help.

Post by **RoryOF** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:46 pm

As far as I know these are codec collections for Linux/Debian/Ubuntu. I doubt they will work on your Windows computer. The whole subject of codecs and multimedia on Windows seems to be a mystery, cured by trial and error, loading assorted collections of codecs.

lovebears · Post by **lovebears** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:26 am

Problem solved. I downloaded Microsoft Office Power Point 2007 and open files in that and it works perfect. Thanks for all the help

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