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Note for Windows users

If you have associated Microsoft Office file types with OOo, then when you double-

click on a *.doc (Word) file, it opens in Writer; *.xls (Excel) files open in Calc, and

*.ppt (PowerPoint) files open in Impress.

If you did not associate the file types, then when you double-click on a Microsoft

Word document, it opens in Microsoft Word (if Word is installed on your computer),

Excel files open in Excel, and PowerPoint files open in PowerPoint.

You can use another method to open Microsoft Office files in OOo and save in those

formats from OOo. See “Opening an existing document” on page 23 for more

information.

Using the Quickstarter under Windows

The Quickstarter is an icon that is placed in the Windows system tray during system

startup. It indicates that OpenOffice.org has been loaded and is ready to use. (The

Quickstarter loads library *.DLL files required by OOo, thus shortening the startup

time for OOo components by about half.) If the Quickstarter is disabled, see

“Reactivating the Quickstarter” if you want to enable it.

Using the Quickstarter icon

Right-click the Quickstarter icon in the system tray to open a pop-up menu (Figure

1) from which you can open a new document, open the Templates and Documents

dialog, or choose an existing document to open. You can also double-click the

Quickstarter icon to display the Templates and Documents dialog.

Figure 1: Quickstarter pop-up menu

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