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