Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-11 Thread Christine Lawrence
uot;Robert Funnell" To: "Christine Lawrence" Cc: 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

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-11 Thread Christine Lawrence
Thank you from Australia! - Original Message - From: Alexandro Colorado To: Christine Lawrence Cc: users@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 3:47 PM Subject: Re: I have lost everything You are welcome and is great that it worked for you. Just remember

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-11 Thread Christine Lawrence
52 PM Subject: Re: I have lost everything 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-o

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Alexandro Colorado
fice 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 >> &g

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Alexandro Colorado
oop? 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: > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12:13 PM > Subjec

RE: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
n response to your messages. -Original Message- From: Christine Lawrence [mailto:cflawre...@homemail.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 19:02 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: I have lost everything Gentlemen I've had a small lightbulb which may help. I have very few documen

RE: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
: Christine Lawrence [mailto:cflawre...@homemail.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 18:53 To: jayand1...@gmail.com Cc: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: I have lost everything Hello everyone I have just watched my system download libreoffce from the site suggested by Jay. It took 20mins so

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Robert Funnell
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" To: "Christine Lawrence" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 1:00 PM Subject: Re: I have lost every

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Christine Lawrence
Message - From: "Dennis E. Hamilton" To: Cc: 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

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread jd1008
about 5 mins so I'll see if that makes any difference. Christine - Original Message - From: "Robert Funnell" To: "Christine Lawrence" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12:23 PM Subject: Re: I have lost everything Christine - I don't remember Windo

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Robert Funnell
ed in about 5 mins so I'll see if that makes any difference. Christine - Original Message - From: "Robert Funnell" To: "Christine Lawrence" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12:23 PM Subject: Re: I have lost everything Christine - I don't rememb

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Christine Lawrence
and how will it manifest itself? Christine - Original Message - From: Jay To: Christine Lawrence Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:59 AM Subject: Re: I have lost everything Original Message From: Christine Lawrence To: users@openoffice.apache.org

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Christine Lawrence
down loaded in about 5 mins so I'll see if that makes any difference. Christine - Original Message - From: "Robert Funnell" To: "Christine Lawrence" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12:23 PM Subject: Re: I have lost everything Christine - I don't

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Christine Lawrence
Hello Dennis I've attracted quite a crowd. I have Windows Vista Home Basic installed on my system. Christine - Original Message - From: "Dennis E. Hamilton" To: Cc: Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12:13 PM Subject: RE: I have lost everything Christine, sorry for

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Robert Funnell
cs 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" To: "Christine Lawrence" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:51 AM Subject:

RE: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
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

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread jd1008
You do not have to reinstall 3.3 !!! You simply mis-installed 4.1.1 You say upgrade went smoothly. But we cannot say unless we see the entire output of the upgrade. I assume you are using windows, right?? Did you install from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/4.1.1/

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Patrick Durusau
Christine, You didn't say what operating system you are on but this may help if it is Windows: * When you installed 4.1.1, did you install for all users or just the current user? If you installed for just the current user, were you logged into an Admin account? If that is also a Yes answ

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Patrick Durusau
Christine Don't reinstall, at least not yet. What do you mean by "cannot open documents?" When you do file -> open, can you see the documents? If so, what message do you get if you try to open the document? So long as the documents are still present on your drive, there is no reason for conc

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Alan B
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Christine Lawrence < cflawre...@homemail.com.au> 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 D

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Robert Funnell
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

I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Christine Lawrence
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 p