This has been present in several recent incarnations of LibreOffice: On a new, clean installation of Windows 10, installing LibreOffice without changing any of the default options, results in files of type .rtf to open with LibreOffice Calc. They should either be left alone, or else open with Writer. If one customizes the LibreOffice installation to also associate Word files with LibreOffice, then it is fixed, but with the default settings it associates only spreadsheet files with LibreOffice, but erroneously including rtf.
hi, you reported this issue with LibO 5.2.1.2 is this issue still present with latest LibO 5.3.3.2?
Hi Tommy, Yes, I tried with another fresh install of Windows 10 Home and a new download of LibO 5.3.3, and the behavior is still the same: before the LibO installer is run, rtf is associated with WordPad, after the install it is on Calc.
(In reply to Robert from comment #0) > with the default settings it > associates only spreadsheet files with LibreOffice That's a weird default setting and I have never seen it. Usually it associates with all of them. I can reproduce it, if I install and unselect all the other associations. However, Calc can open RTF files: bug 59016 explains it. Maybe this association is not wise, though. Let's set to NEW. Version: 5.3.3.2 (x64) Build ID: 3d9a8b4b4e538a85e0782bd6c2d430bafe583448 CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Windows 6.19; UI Render: default; Layout Engine: new; Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI); Calc: group
It would certainly make more sense to associate RTF with LibO Writer rather than Calc, or else leave it with Wordpad. The reason I got going on this issue is that a friend who is not computer-savvy at all, had translated a long poem in an rtf document, then he switched to a new computer with Libreoffice and there it opened with Calc -- since he didn't realize that he was using a spreadsheet application, he continued in Calc which on the first save prompted him to save in ods format, so now his poem is in a spreadsheet which is not very convenient, and I had to show him how to transform it back into an rtf and fix the file association so it opens with Writer.
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Created attachment 163253 [details] screenshot showing the default "open with"
Just tested again with Version: 6.4.5.2 (x64) Build ID: a726b36747cf2001e06b58ad5db1aa3a9a1872d6 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19041; UI render: default; VCL: win; Locale: en-US (en_US); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded And the bug is still present on a clean install of Windows 20 04 Also tested on 3.3.0, so apparently it was inherited from OpenOffice. (Incidentally, if one tries to add a file attachment while writing this comment, then then comment text is lost! So this would be a bug in the bugzilla system which is not very user-friendly)
(In reply to Robert from comment #8) > (Incidentally, if one tries to add a file attachment while writing this > comment, then then comment text is lost! So this would be a bug in the > bugzilla system which is not very user-friendly) Sorry about that. I think the next Bugzilla version will have smoother functionality regarding this. It even supports copying and pasting files directly into the page.
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Created attachment 181340 [details] rtf file properties after clean install with default options
Still present in Version: 7.3.4.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 728fec16bd5f605073805c3c9e7c4212a0120dc5 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR); UI: fr-FR Calc: CL
Code pointers: 1057 // .RTF 1058 RegistryItem gid_Regitem_OpenOffice_RTF_OpenWith_Calc 1059 ParentID = PREDEFINED_HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT; 1060 Subkey = ".rtf\OpenWithProgIDs"; 1061 ModuleID = gid_Module_Prg_Calc_Bin; 1062 Name = "soffice.StarCalcDocument.6"; 1063 Value = " "; 1064 End https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/scp2/source/calc/registryitem_calc.scp?r=700f9272#1058 I suppose the block should be removed and an equivalent should be put in scp2/source/writer/registryitem_writer.scp Andras: any thoughts here?