Hello
I have windows 2016 with citrix for users. Office 2016 is already installed. After installation of Libreoffice 7.1.5, all users are asked to confirm file associations for office’s documents. I tried also to use advanced installation mode and all these options are deactivated by default - still questions appear.
How to modify this behavior ?
Thank you!
In ~recent Windows versions, MS had changed the file association philosophy: instead of assigning for all, they now rely on each application advertising its capabilities (“I can open this, that, and also that”), and whenever there is a new application installed that advertises its capability for a given file type, the next time a user opens such a file, they are presented with the new option, to see if they intended to use the new application.
So since both MS Office and LibreOffice advertise them as able to handle, say, DOCX, but both do not hadd-associate themselves with those file types (since you told you deactivated related option when installing; and recent MS Office follows this MS strategy) - you get this behavior.
And note that it’s not because of something that you can do at LibreOffice level: it’s what you should do at MS Windows level (configure its associations), or at MS Office level (somehow configure its installer to hard-associate it with its supported types - if they still provide this option).