Thank you VERY much Huck. I'll try it out. And at least it gives me something to work with. This is what I was hoping someone would post. John <div>On 11/16/06, Huck <<a href="mailto:dhuckaby@paasda.org">dhuckaby@paasda.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">yeah there's a script... in K12LTSP...if you install LTSP on top of another distro I don't think Eric's scripts come with that..but I might be wrong... In my ancient version....the script is located in: /opt/ltsp/templates/k12linux/openoffice- ms-format-defaults.sh here, I'll post the contents too just for fun: #!/bin/sh # this script changes the default formats to .doc/.xls/.ppt rather than the # native OpenOffice.org formats. Yes, that's ugly - but it makes a huge # difference in the integration of OOo into MS dominate environments. #FILE="/usr/lib/openoffice/share/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Office/TypeDetection.xml" FILE="/usr/lib/ooo-1.1/share/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/TypeDetection.xcu" [ -f $FILE ] || exit perl -i.ltsp -p -e " s/5,calc_MS_Excel_97,com.sun.star.sheet.SpreadsheetDocument,,67,,0,/5,calc_MS_Excel_97,com.sun.star.sheet.SpreadsheetDocument,,323,,0,/; s/1,calc_StarOffice_XML_Calc, com.sun.star.sheet.SpreadsheetDocument,,295,,6200,,/2,calc_StarOffice_XML_Calc,com.sun.star.sheet.SpreadsheetDocument,,55,,6200,,/; s/3,impress_MS_PowerPoint_97,com.sun.star.presentation.PresentationDocument,,67,emp,0,,/3,impress_MS_PowerPoint_97, com.sun.star.presentation.PresentationDocument,,323,emp,0,,/; s/3,writer_MS_Word_97,com.sun.star.text.TextDocument,,67,CWW8,0,,/3,writer_MS_Word_97,com.sun.star.text.TextDocument,,323,CWW8,0,,/; s/1,writer_StarOffice_XML_Writer, com.sun.star.text.TextDocument,,268435751,CXML,6200,,/1,writer_StarOffice_XML_Writer,com.sun.star.text.TextDocument,,268435495,CXML,6200,,/; " $FILE --Huck john wrote: > Doesn't anyone know how to make this happen. I thought this was a solved > issue? > > John > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> > For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org"> http://www.k12os.org</a>> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>