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WARNING: changes file associations

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Contributed by: deemery Monday, July 07 2008 @ 05:10 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Installing this changed the default file associations for office documents, without any warning (that I saw). That's unacceptable, particularly for beta software.

I also noted that it truncated the left-most character on one slide of text when that text was too big for the bounding box.

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WARNING: changes file associations - deemery

I don't know what Open Office did during installation, but no matter how many times I tell the Mac "Open .ppt with Microsoft PowerPoint, do this for all files of this type", many files are still marked with Open Office as the default application.

So I trashed Open Office. -I- (and not the Open Office developers) will decide which damn application to use to open a file.

I wonder what else Open Office has changed.

NeoOffice does not exhibit this unacceptable behavior.

dave

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