Ark and office 2007 files

[O. Sinclair]

O. Sinclair wrote:
> Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:03, O. Sinclair<o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Have a user w Hardy 8.04 and Openoffice 3. When she wants to open a docx
>>> or xlsx, the office 2007 formats, from Dolphin or Konqi, then Ark tries
>>> to open it..
>>>
>>> I have tried to install the converter package, no difference. I tried
>>> changing file associations in "default apps", no change. You can open
>>> from inside Openoffice but not from the file browser.
>>>
>>> Anyone has any idea what I can do to fix this?
>> That sounds like a file association problem in Dolphin, you should be
>> able to solve this with a right click on the file in Dolphin and
>> choose OpenOffice as the application to open with.
>> But you should change the default file association in kcontrol (I
>> assume you are still using KDE 3.5 in Hardy, right?) where you can set
>> OpenOffice to default for these file types (don't forget to remove
>> ark, though). It sometimes needs a new login to take effect.
>>
> thanks Myriam, changes via Dolpin have no effect whatsoever. Will try 
> via Kcontrol.
> 
> 
It is driving me nuts - it sort of works. I got xlsx files working but 
docx still refuse in Dolphin but works in Konqi... have tried all 
manners I can think of to associate file types.

Is there a cli way of doing this?

Regards
Sinclair