open-office intrusiveness

[Erik Bågfors]

Try this

Open the file manager.  Find a .doc file, right click -> properties ->
Open with, change

/Erik

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 07:42:51 -0800 (PST), Don W. Jenkins
<oakman at sc-zg.com> wrote:
> can anyone tell me how to get Open Office NOT to attempt to open all Word
> documents I download by default in Ubuntu?  I use Crossover Office by
> Codeweaver with MS Office to run Word 2000 (works well), and when I
> attempt to download a Word document from my Yahoo briefcase to work on,
> Open Office grabs it and fouls up the download.  I don't know how to stop
> it.  I just want the document downloaded to my home directory as I was
> accustomed to.  I recall having a similar problem a while back when I
> installed Open Office in Windows--it made itself the default word document
> handler and would try to open all documents that downloaded.  This has to
> do with the system-wide installation of OO 1.1.2, as I have OO 1.1.4
> installed in my home directory, which I use and which is not intrusive.
> 
> Thanks,
> Don J.
> 
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