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Message started by shadowcaster on 05/20/13 at 06:27:28

Title: Alternatives to microsoft office.
Post by shadowcaster on 05/20/13 at 06:27:28

Anyone using any of the alternatives to Microsoft office.

I'm testing Kingsoft office. but now i'm not sure I can get it to use the existing links.

maybe if I make a copy of the executable and rename it winword.exe ?

Title: Re: Alternatives to microsoft office.
Post by MikeT on 05/22/13 at 07:52:04

We selectively use LibreOffice at some workstations. We are 98% Microsoft Office though.

Title: Re: Alternatives to microsoft office.
Post by shadowcaster on 05/23/13 at 07:05:22

will linked WORD documents open with it ?

Title: Re: Alternatives to microsoft office.
Post by Kelloggs on 05/23/13 at 13:15:38

Evo does not "call" Microsoft Word or any other program.
What it does it to call the associate program that runs the file extension. In this case DOC.

1.Open the folder that contains the file you want to change.

2.Right-click the file you want to change and then, depending on the type of file, either click Open with or point to Open with and then click Choose default program.

3.Click the program you want to use to open the file.

4.Do one of the following:

•If you want all files of that type to open in the same software program, select the Always use the selected program to open this kind of file check box, and then click OK.

•If you want only that file to open in the software program this one time, clear the Always use the selected program to open this kind of file check box, and then click OK.

Kelloggs

:P

Title: Re: Alternatives to microsoft office.
Post by shadowcaster on 06/04/13 at 07:25:00

I have all my word links set to open using winword in DBA using the "other" setting. I guess that will have to change.

Title: Re: Alternatives to microsoft office.
Post by shadowcaster on 09/23/13 at 10:58:56

Anyone know how to change all the links that use "other" to use the windows extension association ?

Title: Re: Alternatives to microsoft office.
Post by David Waldmann on 09/23/13 at 19:21:18

T7GENIMP should be able to handle it. Might take a little bit of research to figure out which table(s) and field(s) but I'd be pretty sure it's doable.

Title: Re: Alternatives to microsoft office.
Post by shadowcaster on 09/24/13 at 08:23:49

Haven't used that yet.

more stuff to play with

Title: Re: Alternatives to microsoft office.
Post by gtladmin on 10/22/13 at 11:02:28

shadowcaster wrote:

For 6+ years now we have been using LibreOffice (formerly OpenOffoce) and it has worked fine in Evo with opening and printing linked documents with the file extensions .DOC and .XLS. LibreOffice will even open and edit all the latest Microshaft Office documents, thus eliminating the need for any viewers, etc. Save us a bundle of money, important for a small company. Configure the app to save in the old Microshaft formats and you are all set in that regard.