openoffice as handler for thunderbird Solved

[1richard]

I just installed Openoffice3 and it did not set up as the handler in Thunderbird for doc, pps docx.
How do set it up to handle a everything?? Thanks in advance Richard

[The Liquidator]

Re: openoffice as handler for thunderbird

Hi

Open thunderbird then edit/preferences/attachments. Then under the downloads bit select View and edit actions and then select the file type, select change action and navigate to the appropriate OOo3 component. So for .pps specifically pick simpress and for .doc, swriter etc etc.

To navigate you will need to know that if you are using the .deb files supplied by Sun, Ooo will have been installed in the /opt directory. If it's from the repositories then it might be somewhere else - not sure.

HTH

ian

[1richard]

Re: openoffice as handler for thunderbird Solved

Thanks, it did the trick for me