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WARNING! OpenOffice



Randall Hofland wrote:
> I downloaded OpenOffice 1.0 and installed it on a Win98 workstation to
> try it out. BIG MISTAKE!!!
> 
> That particular unit had MS Office 2000 already installed and a number
> of Excel and Word documents stashed in various folders on the machine.
> Seems that OO1 is EXTREMELY promiscuous and altered all these files to
> open up under it and not MS Office. Now I have to go back and alter the
> default application for each of these.

My copy of OpenOffice asked me whether I wanted it to take over 
application associations. But I did choose the "custom install" option; 
I don't know what it does if you take the default install.





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