133. Associate OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office FilesBEFORE YOU BEGIN 132 About Sharing OpenOffice.org Files with Other Applications SEE ALSO 134 Upgrade OpenOffice.org to a New Version 133. Associate OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office Files If you have both Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org installed on the same computer, you should keep their respective native file types separate from one another, especially so that a Microsoft Office document launched from a Microsoft Office application doesn't launch an OpenOffice.org application instead. But, if you prefer OpenOffice.org but you must regularly edit Microsoft Word documents, you might want to be able to click a Word document, which ends with the .doc filename extension, and have Writer start and load the document automaticallyinstead of having your computer load the document in Word. If you have both Office and OpenOffice.org installed, your current file associations might make Word open the file instead. Similarly, you'll have to determine whether Impress or PowerPoint should be the default application for opening PowerPoint .ppt presentation files, and whether you prefer Calc or Excel for working with Excel ( .xls ) spreadsheet files.
NOTES You can always open Office files in Office if you like. After starting the appropriate Office program, just click Open and select the file you want to edit. In addition, you can always open Office files after starting OpenOffice.org, without completing this task first. Just start an OpenOffice.org component, click Open , and open any Office file. To install the latest version of OpenOffice.org on your computer, see 134 Upgrade OpenOffice.org to a New Version . |