Hi!
I have Open Office 2.0 and had it before my new hard drive. I view "My Documents" with the title of the document and the tiny icon that identifies what software created it. Before my new hard drive I always simply clicked twice on any document and it would automatically boot whatever software created it and open the document. Now that I restarted with a new hard drive this is not true. The Open Office icons do not work, so to speak, and for some strange reason I get like alphabet soup in a "Notepad" window. The Open Office tiny icon shows up with all the appropriate titles... but I get only alphabet soup in a window labeled "Notepad" and not Open Office. The only way I can open the documents with the Open Office icons is by first opening Open Office by right clicking on the document title, then going to "Open With" and clicking on the Open Office icon on that list of software I have. I can also open Open Office direct and go to the File menu and open "My Documents" with no problem. Everything with a "Word Pad" icon opens direct, or documents with my screenplay software icon, yet not my Open Office, nor this other strange icon from a software type Windows can't identify thus can't open. So I've got problems despite getting a new hard drive. Can anyone help me on this one? How can I go back to the way it was where I just simply click on the document title and Open Office automatically opens the document?
Clicking on a document and getting alphabet soup
- Bhikkhu Pesala
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Re: Clicking on a document and getting alphabet soup
Probably the easiest way is to go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, select OpenOffice and run a Repair. The other way is to right-click an ODT file in Windows Explorer, Open With, and choose OpenOffice.
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Re: Clicking on a document and getting alphabet soup
Greetings Bhikkhu:
Thank you for your help. I click on Add or Remove Programs as you suggest, only I find no where a choice to repair my Open Office program, only the choice to add or remove it. Also on the far left of the window there are only the choices of: "Change or Remove Programs; Add New Programs; Add/Remove Windows Components; and Set Program Access and Defaults". There are no choices to Repair. How do I go about repairing my Open Office?
I have done the trick of right clicking and "Open With" which works; but actually I'm wondering why it all doesn't work like it use to before I installed my new Hard Drive. At that time all I had to do was click on any of my documents that had the Open Office icon with the name and Open Office would automatically be the default. Why is it different now than before? I have Open Office 2.0 but really I don't think that is the problem. Thanks!
Thank you for your help. I click on Add or Remove Programs as you suggest, only I find no where a choice to repair my Open Office program, only the choice to add or remove it. Also on the far left of the window there are only the choices of: "Change or Remove Programs; Add New Programs; Add/Remove Windows Components; and Set Program Access and Defaults". There are no choices to Repair. How do I go about repairing my Open Office?
I have done the trick of right clicking and "Open With" which works; but actually I'm wondering why it all doesn't work like it use to before I installed my new Hard Drive. At that time all I had to do was click on any of my documents that had the Open Office icon with the name and Open Office would automatically be the default. Why is it different now than before? I have Open Office 2.0 but really I don't think that is the problem. Thanks!
Re: Clicking on a document and getting alphabet soup
Select Change/Remove. The repair option is offered a screen or two into the process.Winfred wrote:Thank you for your help. I click on Add or Remove Programs as you suggest, only I find no where a choice to repair my Open Office program, only the choice to add or remove it. Also on the far left of the window there are only the choices of: "Change or Remove Programs; Add New Programs; Add/Remove Windows Components; and Set Program Access and Defaults". There are no choices to Repair. How do I go about repairing my Open Office?
The way you're doing it is a one-off program selection, not a permanent association of the program to the file type.Winfred wrote:I have done the trick of right clicking and "Open With" which works; but actually I'm wondering why it all doesn't work like it use to before I installed my new Hard Drive. At that time all I had to do was click on any of my documents that had the Open Office icon with the name and Open Office would automatically be the default. Why is it different now than before? I have Open Office 2.0 but really I don't think that is the problem. Thanks!
Don't select a program from the first list, but go down and select "Chosse program." Then select your program and look for the little checkbox below the list of programs in the Open With dialog... the checkbox that says "always use the selected program to open this kind of file."
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---Fox
OOo 3.2.0 Portable, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
---Fox
OOo 3.2.0 Portable, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit