How do I select LibreOffice as an option to open a document?

gb1ker · February 13, 2021, 2:39pm

Hi, I have LO installed on my Windows 10 PC but I cannot find a way to add it as an option to open documents - PDFs for example. If I right click the icon and go to ‘open with’ then LO is not in the list and if I try the ‘choose another app’ option it is still not there.

Then I can select ‘Use another app on this PC’ but that just opens the file explorer and although I can see LibreOffice in my program list, clicking on it just opens the various sub-folders but there’s no ‘application’ anywhere that I can find.

Help please!

Jedimaster · February 13, 2021, 4:03pm

LibreOffice is an Office Suite not a PDF reader. To do Word Processing you would click on the shortcut labeled Writer. Draw is the drawing program. Impress the Presentation Program. LibreOffice has all of these and a few others all in the same wrapper labeled LibreOffice.
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EarnestAl · February 13, 2021, 9:04pm

You can open pdfs by opening Draw, clicking File > Open and navigating to the pdf from the Open dialog box.

As you may wish to edit a pdf, it is a useful option to have Draw on the Open With menu. You were almost there, when you got “Use another app on this PC” you needed to navigate to the Draw program using the dialog box. It opens in Program Files so just click down the folders shown in the path below to finally select sdraw.exe and OK it. Do not tick the box Always use this app.

Path to Draw, you could copy this and paste it in the dialog if your path is exactly the same C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\sdraw.exe