[K12OSN] Open Office Docs opening in AbiWord

[Brian Chase]

LTSP 4.0.1 defaults to Abiword for Microsoft Word documents (i.e. 
anything with .doc extension).

You can change it by going to the menu, than "preferences", than "file 
types and programs".  It is granular on a per user basis, so each user 
will need to change it over as they prefer.

My personal opinion is that Abiword is MUCH faster and does everything I 
need, besides actually playing nicer with MS Word documents.  I'm an 
Abiword/Gnumeric enthusiast for that very reason of better 
compatibility.  Open Office is a pig, eats up alot of memory, is slower, 
and doesn't have the compatibility that the defaults have, perhaps the 
reason Redhat chose it as default.  Your choice though.

Cheers,

Brian

anthony baldwin wrote:

> Shane Stafford wrote:
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>> Looking for some assistance on changing a default.  We are running LTSP
>> 4.0.1 and when you click to open an Open Office .doc file, it opens in
>> AbiWord.  Any way to change that.
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> .doc is a M$ file format.  Openofficd default is .sxw, which would 
> only open in OO.o
> It seems you have set OO.o to save to .doc, but you have abi set as 
> the default app to open the same.
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