Dear Jim: Thank you for your help & especially for expressing it simply. I
have spent hours trying to follow! I couldn't make your steps work, but I
did manage to unhide extensions another way. One of the problem files (to
take an example) has the extension: ".xlsm.xlsm" (inverted commas mine).
e used 'Save as'. TMS
- Original Message - From: "Anthony Chilco"
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Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: [users] OOCalc problem
Hi Thomas,
The icons and the file description displayed in windows explorer don't
tell
I created a New Folder.
Then I think I used the right click method to move the old ones. But I may
have used 'Save as'. TMS
- Original Message -
From: "Anthony Chilco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: [users]
Hi Thomas,
The icons and the file description displayed in windows explorer don't tell you
much about a file, but rather what windows thinks the file is. This is set up in
the windows file association. Have you got file extension display turned off? If
so, turn it on using 'tools / folder optio
Still no response to my OOCalc problem, so let me put it another way. Old Excel
files, which converted happily to OOCalc & were regularly worked on, now, after
having been put in a new folder, describe themselves as Excel and won't open.
If no-one can tell me how to open them, can someone at lea
