YES
I went to open with and selected open office writer as the default program
and magic fairy dust happened. Even my letterhead has come back. I have some
quite big submission docs and I've checked on them. I also have whole
chapters of a book that seem not to be unduly effected. Some of the
formatting is a little odd but nothing like it was previously. I THINK YOU
HAVE DONE IT.
Thank you so much all of you for making an effort for me. It is nice to be
rescued by strangers.
I think I will go an eat now.
Many kind thoughts
Christine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Funnell" <robert.funn...@mcgill.ca>
To: "Christine Lawrence" <cflawre...@homemail.com.au>
Cc: <users@openoffice.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: I have lost everything
Maybe I wasn't clear, or maybe I'm not clear about what you're doing.
Instead of double-clicking on the document icon, if you right-click, does
a menu pop up that allows you do choose which program to use to open the
file?
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Christine Lawrence wrote:
Sorry Robert
I calmed down enoughnow to realise about reply all after the last
email.
I can't actually open the 4.1.1. version of any of my documents. If I
double click I just get the Doxillon converter, not the document itself.
So I have to click on 'convert' before I can see the doc. If I click on
the converted document I first get the Apache Open Office logo and then
the doc opens . I can right click and click on default formatting but it
just creates an identical document that I then have to save. All the
formatting remains a disaster.
The Libreoffice will be down loaded in about 5 mins so I'll see if that
makes any difference.
Christine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Funnell"
<robert.funn...@mcgill.ca>
To: "Christine Lawrence" <cflawre...@homemail.com.au>
Cc: <users@openoffice.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: I have lost everything
Christine -
I don't remember Windows Vista very well, but if you right-click on one
of
your documents, do you see something about choosing the default program
to
open them with? If so, you can tell it to use your new OpenOffice and
that
will then apply to all of your documents.
(Please do Reply to All if you answer, so your message also goes to the
whole list and not just to me.)
- Robert
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Christine Lawrence wrote:
> Thank you so much for getting back so quickly Robert. I'm in heart
> attack territory here!
>
> I have Windows Vista on my computer. I have been using Open Office
> 3.3 very happily for years.
>
> I haven't lost any actual ocuments. They all seem to be there. I just
> can't open any of them by the usual method of clicking on the document
> icon. I am getting messages that seem to imply I am going to have to
> convert hundreds of docs using Doxillon or something similar - one by
> one? Wouldn't it be easier to just reinstall 3.3?
>
> Christine
>
> I haven't
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Funnell"
> <robert.funn...@mcgill.ca>
> To: "Christine Lawrence" <cflawre...@homemail.com.au>
> Cc: <users@openoffice.apache.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:51 AM
> Subject: Re: I have lost everything
>
>
> > On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Christine Lawrence wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> >
> > How exactly are you trying to open the documents? And what exactly
> > happens
> > when you try? What operating system are you using? Windows?
> >
> > Many people have done such an upgrade without losing anything, so
> > I'm
> > optimistic that you haven't lost your documents.
> >
> > - Robert
> >
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