Issue 90198 - File associations to MS Office not set
Summary: File associations to MS Office not set
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 89573
Alias: None
Product: Installation
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.0 Beta
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Olaf Felka
QA Contact: issues@installation
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2008-05-31 23:10 UTC by kjm2
Modified: 2008-06-01 17:27 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description kjm2 2008-05-31 23:10:25 UTC 
Installing alongside OOo 2.4 with Microsoft Office file associations set to open
in OOo. The 3.0 Beta installer seems to ignore the settings of the screen that
asks if you want it to open MS Office documents, and instead (even if you don't
check any of the MS Office apps) resets all the file associations to their
defaults (so that they won't automatically open in OOo 2.4 either). Once it is
in this state (with both versions of OOo installed), changing the options inside
either version of OOo to try to fix this (from Tools>Options>Load/Save>Microsoft
Office) does not change any associations either.
Comment 1 aziem 2008-06-01 14:22:02 UTC 
Please search before reporting frequently-reported-as-duplicate issues.
http://www.oooninja.com/2008/05/openofficeorg-30-beta-faq.html


*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 88051 ***
Comment 2 aziem 2008-06-01 14:22:18 UTC 
closing duplicate
Comment 3 kjm2 2008-06-01 17:02:55 UTC 
I did search before reporting it. OK, probably my searching incompetence. But 
you've missed the point (or I have). The main aspect of my issue seems not to 
be covered in the issue that this was marked as a duplicate of, or in the 
actions that were taken on that, and is not in accord with the reason for 
leaving out the integration in the beta. this is that the beta installer, on 
this machine, does NOT simply ignore everything and not set up the integration. 
What it does is to delete the existing associations for .DOC, .PPT, .XLS and so 
on, and replace them by defaults. (The same happens whether I check the boxes 
for integrating the MS Office filetypes in the 3.0 installer, or not. It never 
does the integration, but it always takes away the existing associations.)  So 
the upshot is that I can't just go on working as before for production work 
with 2.4, because .DOC files and so on do not open automactially in OOo 2.4 any 
more, they have gone back to the defualt and open in Wordpad (and .PPT and .XLS 
don't open in anything). I can fix this by repairing the 2.4 installation, of 
course. But it shouldn't happen. I'd be happy if the 3.0 installer didn't give 
me the option of associating MS Office filetypes. I'd be reasonably happy if it 
gaveme the option of not doing so (as it does), and if I say I don't want it to 
(I did the first time I installed it), it leaves the old associations untouched 
(but it doesn't). I'm not happy with the installation process taking away, 
without warning, the associations I previously had, without me having asked it 
to change any associations.
Comment 4 Olaf Felka 2008-06-01 17:17:49 UTC 
Please have a look at issue 89573

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 89573 ***
Comment 5 Olaf Felka 2008-06-01 17:18:16 UTC 
nevertheless duplicate
Comment 6 Joost Andrae 2008-06-01 17:27:19 UTC 
please read this:
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/system_integration_for_ooo_3