Re: FW: Abi retro install for Richard L. Dery & a question

> Now I have a question.  I have had to remove abi from my windows xp machine
> because abi takes every word file and becomes the default word processor.
> Any way around this or do I have to keep abi off my machine?

No, you don't have to keep AbiWord off your machine.

The process goes something like this:

Right-click a word processing file and select "Open with..."

You'll be presented with a list of word processing and other programs on 
your system. Select the program you want, and also click the checkbox 
that says something like "always use this program for this type of 
file," then click OK.

That should fix the problem.

FWIW, I've had LibreOffice exhibit this same "bullying" behavior on XP 
systems where the only other word processor was WordPad. LibreOffice 
would open .rtf files even though WordPad had been specified as the 
default. The problem seemed to go away when a .rtf file created in 
WordPad  was stored in the user's directory.




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