Description: Installer associates xls file with LibeOffice Steps to Reproduce: 1. install a LibO 6.2.7(x64) on Windows10 2. Select a custom install 3. Un-cheked a Word/Excel/PowerPoint/etc, ... 4. Finish a Install Actual Results: xls file opens with LibO. Expected Results: xls file opens with Excel. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: OS: Windows 10 Pro(x64) - Japanese LIBO: バージョン: 6.2.7.1 (X64) BUILD ID: 23EDC44B61B830B7D749943E020E96F5A7DF63BF CPU THREADS: 4; OS:WINDOWS 10.0; UI RENDER: GL; VCL: WIN; ロケール: JA-JP (JA_JP); UIの言語: JA-JP CALC: THREADED
Installer does not associate itself with XLS files *as default application* if you don't check a relevant checkbox in installer. However, it indeed registers itself as an application that is *able* to open them (that is different; and there may exist multiple such applications installed on the system, only one of them being the default, i.e. which opens those files when no application is explicitly specified). Modern Windows operating systems are smart enough to decide themselves to use the only one available application able to open the file: i.e., if there's only one such application installed on your system that can open XLS, and no application is set as default, Windows will use that installed non-default as default. That is not a bug of LibreOffice, but a detail of operation of your OS. The registration of LO as capable of opening its supported file types should not be disabled. Closing NOTABUG.
(In reply to baffclan from comment #0) > Expected Results: > xls file opens with Excel. The detail I missed here: you seem to have Excel installed. That would mean that you have at least two applications able to handle XLS; and most possibly, Excel was the default. That is different from the situation I imagined. Do you install LibreOffice for the first time, or do you upgrade it from an older version?
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #2) > That is different from the situation I imagined. Do you install LibreOffice > for the first time, or do you upgrade it from an older version? Yes, it is a PC with Excel installed. I installed LibreOffice for the first time on that PC. Originally the xls file was associated with Excel, but after installation it was associated with LibreOffice.
Cannnot reproduce this. I got a new PC with MS-Office 2019. and I installed LibreOffice 7.0.1. Version: 7.0.1.2 (x64) Build ID: 7cbcfc562f6eb6708b5ff7d7397325de9e764452 CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 18363; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: ja-JP (ja_JP); UI: ja-JP Calc: CL -> WFM