[COLUG] Open Office Opening Documents

[Andrew Barr]

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 11:27 -0500, Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> Is there a way to override Open Office's default for opening documents?
> I have a text file (with a .txt extension). The file is in CSV format.
> In Nautilus, I right click on the file and select 'open with open
> office.org spreadsheet application, but it opens it with the word
> processor application. Similarly, if I am running OO spreadsheet and use
> the open menu to open this document, it still opens it in OO word
> processor.  The only way I've been able to open it in the spreadsheet
> application is to change the file extension.

Assuming you have "Use Openoffice.org dialogs" unchecked in your
preferences and you are using GNOME....

Select the file type either from the drop down or the hidden "File Type"
widget that is below the selector in the GTK+ open dialog. I imagine the
one you would want is "Text CSV". Alternately, the generic "Spreadsheet"
type appears to include .csv and .txt files.

HTH,
Andrew