Issue 122963 - unable to make .ASW files call the swriter program. It used to in OO 3.x. I have gone thru every aspect of Microsoft to make asw programs call Open Office writer.
Summary: unable to make .ASW files call the swriter program. It used to in OO 3.x. I h...
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: open-import (show other issues)
Version: 4.0.0
Hardware: PC Windows, all
: P3 Normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
QA Contact: Edwin Sharp
URL:
Keywords: needmoreinfo
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2013-08-05 21:53 UTC by Dan Davidson
Modified: 2017-05-20 10:14 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Dan Davidson 2013-08-05 21:53:23 UTC 
unable to make .ASW files call the swriter program. It used to in OO 3.x. I have gone thru every aspect of Microsoft to make asw programs call Open Office writer.

I have also been unable to make Microsoft accept changes to the default .ASW 

It act as if Microsoft is blocking this change.
Comment 1 Rob Weir 2013-08-05 23:24:46 UTC 
Does it work fine if you do a File/Open from within OpenOffice?  I know that is not your ultimate goal, but I want first to check to see if you are able to open ASW files in general.
Comment 2 Edwin Sharp 2013-08-06 07:03:56 UTC 
Please provide steps to reproduce.
Comment 3 Edwin Sharp 2013-08-08 08:38:55 UTC 
data by email:

Step 1 - got to asw file (this is a text file)
S2 - right click on file to open with a text program. Only notepad and wordpad are available
S2 - click on open with and select "browse"
s3 - only program files is available so I click on "OS(c)"
s4 - click on "program files  (x86) - this is where OO is located
S5 - click on Open Office 4
S6 - click on program files
S7 - click on "swriter.exe
S8 - back at select the program and swriter not  on list of recommended programs

Aha - I found a way to do it.
At S6 I have to get a list of programs to select and OO isn't there. so redo S7 and select OpenOffice.exe. That puts OO in the list of selected programs. Then a prompt comes onf from OO to select a font (a waste at that step). I select the font and the files appears for editing. When saving I keep it in the old format.

It looks like I have solved the problem by seeing an alternative way to solve the program. It would be nice not to have to select the font think every time but that is a minor inconvenience.

Have a great day,
Dan Davidson
Comment 4 Edwin Sharp 2013-08-08 08:50:01 UTC 
Thank you.

Association of asw file with AOO4 successful.

Rev. 1507307 Win 7