Yrs you can uninstall it On Wed, 19 Oct 2022, at 04:53, PCS wrote: > Dear Hugh, > > You say that Microsoft [Office] has taken over all your OpenOffice > files. That suggests it is the default productivity application suite. > If you genuinely have "no use whatsoever" for Microsoft office, > uninstalling it should free you from it and cause your documents to be > opened by another app, e.g. OpenOffice or LibreOffice, provided that a > suitable app is available, but I can’t remember if the available or > selected app automatically becomes the new default app or if you have > to set the default. > > I say uninstalling MS Office "should free you from it" because I do not > know if a MS Windows computer will allow you to uninstall MS Office, > perhaps Mr Gates may insist that you keep MS Office so that he can keep > billing you for it because you have to use it because it keeps > preventing you from using any alternative. I had MS Office on my Mac > under an Education licence for a few years, because it was required for > my children’s schoolwork, but I uninstalled it when they no longer > needed it (and I was glad to be rid of it), but I don’t know if you can > uninstall it from a Windows computer. > > However, you should not have to uninstall MS Office unless you really > do want to get rid of it, you should be able to open your documents > with any available alternate application. On the Mac this is done by > right-clicking on the document’s icon, then scrolling in the selection > window to “Open With” and selecting the app you want to use from the > list of available applications, or selecting “Other …” to open the > Applications folder if the app you want to use is not listed in the > initial selection window, or selecting “App Store …” if the app you > want is not installed, then download and install the app, or in the > case of OO or LO go instead to the download website to get the app. > > The previous paragraph outlines how to open a document on the Mac with > a non-default app (unless the default app is the only one available). I > assume that Windows must offer some equivalent procedure. It is a long > time since I have reset the default app for a document on the Mac, so I > would probably have to look up how to do it now, which I assume you > should be able to do as easily as me, and if you are using Windows it > will almost certainly be a different procedure anyway, so there would > be no point in me telling you how to do it on the Mac, but surely > Windows cannot be so inferior to the Mac that it doesn't let you set a > default app when more than one of your installed apps is able to open a > document? I prefer the Mac for its desktop, dock, and filing system, > the OS itself is all but irrelevant, because whether you use Mac, > Linux, or Windows they all do pretty much the same thing, they just go > about it a bit differently, so what you can do on one you should be > able to do on another. > > In the unlikely event that you discover that your problem actually is > in OpenOffice rather than in the OS’s default app configuration, you > could try LibreOffice, a popular alternative to OpenOffice. I have used > OO routinely on the Mac for many years, and I occasionally used LO on > Linux (their documents are interchangeable), and I have recently > switched from OO to LO on the Mac because the last OO update seemed to > introduce some glitches. Some features are implemented better on OO > than on LO, and some are better on LO than OO, and a couple of LO’s > ways of doing things still annoy me even though I should be used to > them by now, but LO is at least as good as OO overall, so if you are > having problems with OO it could be worth trying LO, but I doubt that > your problem is in the app, you will almost certainly find it is in the > default app selection. > > Regards, > > Peter. > > >> On 18 Oct 2022, at 10:34 pm, Hugh McEachern <hugh.mceach...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Attn: Open Office, >> >> We are unable to access our open office files on our computer. It keeps >> giving a error message. >> I have downloaded the latest open office but it still wont work. >> Microsoft word seems to have taken over all our open office files and I have >> absolutely no use >> whats so ever for Microsoft. >> >> Thanks >> Hugh McEachern >> HMIC Canada >> >> >> >> >> >> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> >> Virus-free.www.avast.com >> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> >> <x-msg://1/#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
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