1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3 4<!-- 5*********************************************************************** 6 * 7 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 8 * 9 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 10 * 11 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 12 * 13 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 14 * 15 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 16 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 17 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 18 * 19 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 20 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 21 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 22 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 23 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 24 * 25 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 26 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 27 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 28 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 29 * 30 ************************************************************************ 31 --> 32 33 34<meta> 35<topic id="textsharedguidems_doctypesxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 36<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Changing the Association of Microsoft Office Document Types</title> 37<filename>/text/shared/guide/ms_doctypes.xhp</filename> 38</topic> 39</meta> 40<body> 41<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3143267"><bookmark_value>Microsoft Office;reassigning document types</bookmark_value> 42<bookmark_value>file associations for Microsoft Office</bookmark_value> 43<bookmark_value>changing;file associations in Setup program</bookmark_value> 44</bookmark> 45<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> 46</variable></paragraph> 47<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> 48<section id="ms_extensions"> 49<list type="ordered"> 50<listitem> 51<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> 52</listitem> 53<listitem> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0815200803314268" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In the context menu, choose "Open with..."</paragraph> 55</listitem> 56<listitem> 57<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> 58<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> 59</listitem> 60</list> 61</section> 62<section id="relatedtopics"> 63<embed href="text/shared/guide/doc_open.xhp#doc_open"/> 64<embed href="text/shared/guide/import_ms.xhp#import_ms"/> 65<embed href="text/shared/guide/ms_user.xhp#ms_user"/> 66</section> 67</body> 68</helpdocument> 69