1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3 4<!--*********************************************************** 5 * 6 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8 * distributed with this work for additional information 9 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13 * 14 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15 * 16 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 20 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21 * under the License. 22 * 23 ***********************************************************--> 24 25 26 27 28<meta> 29<topic id="textsharedguidems_doctypesxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Changing the Association of Microsoft Office Document Types</title> 31<filename>/text/shared/guide/ms_doctypes.xhp</filename> 32</topic> 33</meta> 34<body> 35<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3143267"><bookmark_value>Microsoft Office;reassigning document types</bookmark_value> 36<bookmark_value>file associations for Microsoft Office</bookmark_value> 37<bookmark_value>changing;file associations in Setup program</bookmark_value> 38</bookmark> 39<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3143267" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="8"><variable id="ms_doctypes"><link href="text/shared/guide/ms_doctypes.xhp" name="Changing the Association of Microsoft Office Document Types">Changing the Association of Microsoft Office Document Types</link> 40</variable></paragraph> 41<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152780" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="1">To change the association of Microsoft Office file name extensions to open the files either in $[officename] or in Microsoft Office, using Microsoft Windows:</paragraph> 42<section id="ms_extensions"> 43<list type="ordered"> 44<listitem> 45<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0815200803314147" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In Windows Explorer, right-click a file of the type that you want to assign to another application.</paragraph> 46</listitem> 47<listitem> 48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0815200803314268" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In the context menu, choose "Open with..."</paragraph> 49</listitem> 50<listitem> 51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0815200803314245" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In the list of applications, select the program that should open the current type of files. Make sure that "Always use this program" is selected.</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0815200803314243" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">If these steps do not apply to your brand of Microsoft Windows, search your Microsoft Windows Help for instructions how to change the file associations.</paragraph> 53</listitem> 54</list> 55</section> 56<section id="relatedtopics"> 57<embed href="text/shared/guide/doc_open.xhp#doc_open"/> 58<embed href="text/shared/guide/import_ms.xhp#import_ms"/> 59<embed href="text/shared/guide/ms_user.xhp#ms_user"/> 60</section> 61</body> 62</helpdocument> 63