Problem with Choose default apps by filetype

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I am running Win 10 Pro 64-bit 22H2.  I have installed both OpenOffice and LibreOffice.  When I installed LibreOffice,  it changed some of my app defaults.  I want to reset .csv –> OpenOffice, and that should be easy to do.  When I go to Settings –> Choose default apps by filetype –> find .csv, it tells me the LibreOffice is the default program.  I click on the “LibreOffice” box, and Windows gives me four choices: LibreOffice, WordPad, Notepad, and Look for an app in the Microsoft Store.  It does not give me the option of OpenOffice.  When I go to the Microsoft Store, I see lots of apps, but I do not see OpenOffice.  In the recent past I have seen OpenOffice in the list.  When I look at the settings for .odt, I see both LibreOffice and OpenOffice as choices for the default.  I have two questions:  1) How do I get OpenOffice set as a default, when it is not listed (but is installed)?  2) If I were to find OpenOffice in the Microsoft Store (which has happened recently), how do make that app the default?  When I saw it recently, I clicked on the app in the list, and it told me about the app.  I could not see any way to tell Windows that I wanted that app to be the default.  Maybe I am/was missing something obvious.  Thanks.

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Right-click on a .csv file and choose the Open with option.

Select the Choose another app option at the bottom.

Check the Always use this app to open .csv files box.

CRITICAL – the box must be checked to change the “default app” that opens .csv files.

If Open Office is one of the Other options listed, select it.

If it’s not, click on More Apps, scroll down the list of apps until you see Open Office, and select it.

If it’s not listed, select the Look for another app on this PC option all the way at the bottom of that list, browser to the location where the Open Office is located (normally C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenOffice #\program), and then select scalc.exe.

That “should” make Open Office the default app to open all .csv files.

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nOads  – Just for feedback, I use these steps you outlined a lot, and they do work well.

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