Excel files not opening

Hi,
Suddenly, I cannot open .xls of .ods documents. Something I have altered recently may have done this. If I right click open with options I cannot find Open office. pdf files are opening with Okular as default. Previously Excel files opened with Open Office as default.Open office appears to be installed. Can anyone suggest how I can get these files to open and set it as default again.
Sorry again for the learner level question.

System: openSUSE 11.2 (i586)
KDE: 4.3.5 (KDE 4.3.5) “release 0”

Ok, problem solved. Not sure how I did it, but will take the result.
Thanks for anyone about to jump on the answer.

Linuxinlennox wrote:
> Something I have altered recently may have done this.

best bet is to undo what you did.


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I’m guessing that you might have updated KDE recently?

I don’t do quite this, but the connection between filename extensions and ‘auto-opening’ this file is set by ‘System Settings > Advanced > Configure File Associations’

When I check in there, I have, eg,

known types : vnd.ms-excel (and I don't understand the vnd part)

filename patterns : .xla .xlc .xld .xll .xlm .xls .xlt .xlw


Application order : OpenOffice.org Calc Gnumeric

that should ensure that files with any of those .xl* extensions should be opened by preference with OO Calc.