Though I love the command line, I was hoping for a mouse-click solution.
I.e. I click on the link and it properly opens up in OO.

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Anthony Lander <anthonylander@yahoo.com>wrote:

>
> On 10-Jul-26, at 8:54 PM, C64 Whiz wrote:
>
>  Hello,
>>
>> I've searched for an answer but can't find a simple one.  I have an
>> OpenOffice document (.ods) I'd like to link to in my .org files.  So I have
>> the following syntax:
>>
>>  [[file:c:/mydata/myfile.ods][File Description]]
>>
>> When I click on the link in OrgMode, Emacs opens the file and not
>> OpenOffice.  Yet, when I'm in file explorer (yes, Windows), double clicking
>> the file does open up Open Office.  So I know the association is there.
>>
>
> Try C-u C-c C-o. On my mac, that switches whether the link opens in emacs
> or through the operating system file association (although mine is the
> reverse. With the prefix it opens in emacs. Not sure why). From the
> doc-string for org-open-at-point:
>
>        (org-open-at-point &optional IN-EMACS REFERENCE-BUFFER)
>
>        Open link at or after point.
>        If there is no link at point, this function will search forward up
> to
>        the end of the current line.
>        Normally, files will be opened by an appropriate application.  If
> the
>        optional argument IN-EMACS is non-nil, Emacs will visit the file.
>        With a double prefix argument, try to open outside of Emacs, in the
>        application the system uses for this file type.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>  -Anthony
>
>