If I double click a .odt (OpenOffice Document) file that's on a 4TB MyBook USB drive plugged into my router it tries to open it in Archive Manager. I have to right click it, go to "open with..." and click OpenOffice.org Calc.  Can I change the default "Open with..." to OpenOffice Calc like in Windows, or is there something else I have to do to get it to open correctly?
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How do I set the default program that I use?  I have tried to open System Info → Default Program → change my program, but it won't work,  Any idea? Or should I use Terminal?   I want to replace the default movie player with VLC media player, because the current movie player is useless to me.
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Sometime ago I created an .ods file with Libreoffice Calc which I password protected. I have now forgotten the password and as a result I am unable to access the file. Is there any way of bypassing or recovering the password, e.g. as root using the terminal?
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Is there are rule when to use opened vs open?  I always get confused even though I've been speaking English as the dominant language for more than half my life.  E.g.         Is the door open(ed)?   Which file do you have open(ed) in your editor?
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I worked on a Word document and also saved the file on my flash drive.  When it asked me to save, I pressed the Replace document option by mistake.    I can see the missing work under the Properties menu. Will I be able to recover the lost work?
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I just started LaTeX, so I have a very vague idea how to operate it. I am now trying to make a bibliography. From what I understood, I need a .bib document, which I then will insert with \bibliography{}. My question is, how can I make a .bib file? I have an OpenOffice document that I'd like to use. Browsing a bit on the internet, there seems to exist a possibility to convert .bib files into other types, but I haven't found the right conversion. On bibtex.org the converter is disabled.  I have a feeling I'm doing something very wrong, can someone please help?
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What can I use to view office documents on the Ubuntu phone? I would like to be able to view odf and ms office documents like doc and docx.
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I just discovered an incredibly annoying "feature" of Windows 7 tonight.  If you click on your optical drive in Explorer, and there is no disc in the drive, Windows 7 is kind enough to open the tray for you.  I'm finding it hard to contain my rage over this idiotic design decision.  WTF?  According to , this behavior was apparently introduced in Vista.  The author posted a workaround, but I don't want a workaround.  I want it to stop doing this.  Like he, I have a case with a door that covers the drive bays.  If it's closed, and I accidentally click on that optical drive, it knocks on that door 10 or 12 times before giving up.  Can this behavior be turned off in Windows 7?
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I'm opening an Excel file and I'm getting the File in use pop-up that says it's locked for editing by me. However, I've not got it open on this computer (I think I had it open and my machine blue-screened). How do I go about fixing this?  Should specify, this is a file on a file share.  edit I'm not talking about if this is being used by another user on another machine, this is only accessible by me on this file share.
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In earlier versions of Ubuntu (10.10-) there was an option in the "open with" tab in the properties window, to add a custom command to open a file. However, this is no longer the case in Ubuntu 11.10. Is there any way that I can add these file type associations with a command of my choice rather than the applications detected by the system.
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In Windows when you're in File Explorer, you can right-click anywhere and create a new item of various types (there's then a submenu option to select which type: text file, ZIP file, etc., just to name a few). In Finder there seems to be no such option. I imagine the expected workflow on Mac would be to open an Application and create a new file from within the application, then save it. But I sometimes prefer this alternative workflow of creating a blank file first, and then opening it as the entrypoint into the application.  Is there some way to configure Finder to add a right-click option to create new, empty files?
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Let's say I have 2000 .ODT files. Their names are random numbers. How do I go about searching for, let's say, "pricing list"? How do I find the document I need without opening all of them one by one and checking to see if it's the right one?  Is there some program to search through the words in the documents without opening them?
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Q: How to open a web site automatically when inserting a USB.  I currently have 2 files on it:  autorun.inf start.url   autorun.inf contains 3 lines:  [autorun]   ShellExecute=start.url open=start.url   start.url contains 2 lines:  [InternetShortcut] URL=http://cnn.com   Loads ok on a Vista machine, but does not load on other XP or Windows7 machines.  Any clue what to change?
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The command touch {jan,feb,mar}-{Rep.xls,graph.xls} creates files I can't open:  feb-graph.xls jan-Rep.xls feb-Rep.xls mar-graph.xls jan-graph.xls mar-Rep.xls  So I created one template file 1.ods, saved with OO-Calc. Then I tried to copy this file using cp again in the same fashion as cp:  cp 1.ods {jan,feb,mar}{Rep.ods,graph.ods}     but that doesnt work:     cp: target `margraph.ods' is not a directory   How do I copy a single file to multiple files?
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After hitting ⌘-O, how can I navigate my folders and select a file to open using only my keyboard?   In particular, how can I get the focus into the folder list? (From there I can use arrows or start typing the first letters of the desired file/folder.)  In some programs I can rely on hitting TAB 5 times, but this isn't reliable and I figure there must be a better way.
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I was working on a LibreOffice Writer document when my computer turned off. No problem there, I booted up, went back into LibreOffice and it gave the option to recover everything. I left the document up on my computer and a family member came by, closed it and hit Don't save. I had never officially saved it yet I believe.  I see that by going to .config/libreoffice/4/user/backup, it looks like I can view LibreOffice documents that are being "autosaved" until I officially save them (or "don't save" them). That leads me to believe it may be possible to recover this document since it was at least autosaved there before. Would I just go to advanced options in testdisk, and from there select the large partition (I only have one SSD), and then read through the list? Will testdisk pay attention to these autosaved LibreOffice documents that were temporarily in a backup folder until the user decided to oficially save?
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Most OSs show a nice summary about which application will be used to open a certain file type. Android does not seem to have such a function.  How can I track and manage the default applications?
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Just discovered I have gotten a FOUND.000 folder on my usb drive. I guess from running chkdsk once. It has three files in it:   FILE0000.CHK FILE0001.CHK FILE0002.CHK   What exactly can I do with these files? What are my options? Are they lost files? Are they garbage? Can I use them for anything at all? Or will I just have to delete them?