Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 62786
The application of the OpenOffice thumbnails to all MS documents
Last modified: 2013-07-30 02:14:49 UTC
Since loading OpenOffice suite, all thumbnail icons used to denote Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents have been replaced with the OpenOffice icons. This raises two issues for me: 1. why am I not asked if I want this to happen? I now have difficulty spotting the type of document I am looking for. 2. how do I now differentiate which documents I have opened in, for example, Writer and converted to open documents from those that are still in Word format? I would have thought it far more sensible to only replace the MS icons as and when I had saved them as open documents. Cheers, Paul Edwards
maybe installation is the place where the document bindings etc, is set up?
Sure, that you were not asked to make this changes? In the installation Wizard there is a dialog, in which you are asked, if you want to register for MS Office file tyes. On this page there are three checkboxes for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. If you check this, the MS file types are registered for OpenOffice.org.
In my opinion it works as designed -> sending back this task
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