File association

Someone sent me an excel spreadsheet today and I tried to open it on my phone. I chose to open it with Quick Office and I chose "Always" and it won't open the file. I think the other choice was Spreadsheet viewer. I also have the app Documents To Go. Is there any way to change the file association once you've chosen to use a certain app "Always?"

Thanks!

I have Xfce and in Thunar files association are changing randomly, to wine applications like jpeg and png to Internet Explorer and mp3 to Windows Media Player.

:P I've used openSUSE for several versions now. Currently I'm using version 11.2 final and am experiencing a perplexing behavior related to file associations.

I have a file explorer window opened and is in the background of Chrome:

However, when I click on the file explorer icon on the Launcher, it doesn't open/switch to the already opened window, but instead open a new one:

How can I just open/switch to the already-opened file explorer window?

Hey guys,I've searched the web and can't find an answer to this, and I don't remember this happening when I was on Statler, but if I have a Libreoffice file open already, and I go to Thunar and open another Libreoffice file, the new file doesn't come into focus but opens in the background, and I get a blinking button in my tint2 toolbar.  If I am opening a new file, it&#03

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It's easy to set up [[Windows file associations]] so that double-clicking a file in Windows Explorer will open the file in Vim. However, for some types of file, Vim can do more than just edit the file.

I started using Sublime Text 2 a week or so ago and I loved it so much I've spent $60 on it and now want to use it for everything.

Gedit currently has ownership of most of the text file associations. I'd essentially like to replace any association to gedit with sublime-text-2.

Any tips available on bulk association changing?

I have installed MS Office 2010 using PlayOnLinux. i want to associate the .docx files to Playonlinux. I've follow the workaround on this thread: how to set file associations with PlayOnLinux?

but I have still the problem, that Word will open clean but not the Document that I select. Any idea?

How can I change the default word processor (to openoffice) on Slackware 13.1, with KDE?

When I click on a file using dolphin, .doc files open with kwrite. I would like them to open with open office.

Thanks.