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BDK1022

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Jun 26, 2006
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Could someone tell me how I can make my computer automatically open office documents with OpenOffice and not Microsoft Office?
 
BDK1022 said:
Could someone tell me how I can make my computer automatically open office documents with OpenOffice and not Microsoft Office?


ctrl+click a document->open with->other
select openoffice and check off "always open with"
 
click on the word document (or excel spreadsheet, or whatever), hit "apple-i", then under "open with" choose OpenOffice (isn't it NeoOffice for Macs?), and click "Change All..."

That should be it.

edit: what discounteggroll said works too
 
That works if I do it for each document, but is there a way to make it so that everytime I download a new Word or Excel file it automatically opens with OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office.
 
BDK1022 said:
That works if I do it for each document, but is there a way to make it so that everytime I download a new Word or Excel file it automatically opens with OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office.
Follow comictimes's instructions.
 
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