Hi Christine, here is a blog post I wrote since this seems to be a recurring issue with new users. I will asume you are on a windows machine and this instructions. http://alexandrocolorado.com/2015/02/05/restore-file-type-association-of-your-office-documents/
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Christine Lawrence < cflawre...@homemail.com.au> wrote: > Gentlemen > > I've had a small lightbulb which may help. > > I have very few documents that are saved in Open Office. This is because I > have a huge distribution and quite a few of my people can't read open > office using their operating systems. So I convert docs to word before they > go anywhere. I have just found an Open Office doc looking perfectly normal > and unchanged. So the problem might be the fact that I'm trying to open > word docs. Is there anyway I can get out of this loop? Version 3.3 happily > read Open Office docs so why can't 4.1.1.? > > Christine > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis E. Hamilton" < > dennis.hamil...@acm.org> > To: <users@openoffice.apache.org> > Cc: <cflawre...@homemail.com.au> > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12:13 PM > Subject: RE: I have lost everything > > > Christine, sorry for the difficulty. > > The documents are probably just fine and some settings in your computer > system need to be adjusted for you to find them again. Installing Apache > OpenOffice 4.1.1 does not touch user documents at all. > > First, what is the Operating System on your Computer? > > If you provide that, we can guide you to finding your files again. > > > - Dennis > > PS: You have reached a public mailing list on which volunteers contribute > to questions from other users like themselves. For any follow-up, please > reply to users@openoffice.apache.org where expert users can offer further > advice and others can learn the solutions others have found. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christine Lawrence [mailto:cflawre...@homemail.com.au] > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 17:39 > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: I have lost everything > Importance: High > > Please help-. I am hysterical here. > > I have just had the bright idea to upgrade my Open Office program. The > upgrade from 3.3 to 4.1.1 went swimmingly except NOW I CANNOT OPEN ANY OF > THE HUNDREDS OF DOCUMENTS ON MY SYSTEM. I REPRESENT 20 SPORTING > ORGANIZATIONS AND I AM DEAD IN THE WATER. Can I please reinstall 3.3 ??? > > It never occurred to me that a program could be designed to do this. > > Christine > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
