Parse error - please rephrase.

Post #35,023 by CRConrad 4/10/02 6:26:25 PM Reply	Parse error - please rephrase. "Change MS Office type file settings from those indicated by OpenOffice, to MS Office"??? What, change "MS Office type file settings" to MS "Office type file settings"? What's OpenOffice got to do with it; are you changing from MS Office, "via" OpenOffice, to MS Office? Or WTF are you gibbering about? File-type associations in Windows are changed in the Explorer's Tools / Folder Options dialog. Select the "File Types" tab, scroll down to the file type you want, click "Change..." or "Advanced". HTH... Christian R. Conrad Of course, who am I to point fingers? I'm in the "Information Technology" business, prima facia evidence that there's bats in the bell tower. -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=27764\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #35,030 by kmself 4/10/02 6:56:24 PM Reply	Rephrased Associations for .doc, .xls, and a slew of other Office docs are now set to OpenOffice. They should be set to the default (eg: immediate post-install of MS Office) associations. The only fix I've got at the moment is to go through the file associations dialog one filetype at a time through MS Windows Explorer. Tedium doesn't even begin to describe this. "Open", "New", "Print", "Print to", .... I know these are keyed to Registry settings somewhere, ideal would be to know the hive and values. I should be able to clone these from another system. `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]`
Post #35,067 by static 4/10/02 11:43:23 PM Reply	Slightly quicker way. Use the right-click Open With... dialog to select the right app for one of each representive type of file. Rememeber to check "Always Open with this program" or whatever it's called. If you don't see Open With... when you right click use Shift-Right Click. Whilst the File Association dialog is also the right place, it's typically Microsoft: hard to use, impossible to script and when you drill down far enough, too much information to change easily. It is, quite simply, a bad UI. Open With is much better alternative. Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #35,072 by kmself 4/11/02 12:12:39 AM Reply	Hmmm I'm not sure that's "easier". First, there's a shitload of options that "open with" doesn't seem to deal with -- the handful of mumbles above -- print, open, edit, new, etc. Second, there are filetypes which aren't immediate associated. .dot, .xlb, etc. Tracking these down is a PITA. Third...Dunno. There was a third. Refresh seemed to be the solution. `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]`

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