Susan Wiebusch wrote: > I wish that I hadn’t downloaded this program to begin with. It has produced > nothing but problems. Example, when I type a date in word or Excel, it > stubbornly defaults to numbers i.e.2/5/14. I may have a situation where I > want the words. Another example is in Excel. In Word, I can go to the top > and make the appropriate click so that I get an automatic ,. It is > maddening. > > The person helping me on the phone when I bought this program (not knowing > that I wasn’t just buying word) led me through steps to have the default > program to be Open Office. I assume that there are steps have the default > program be Word and Excel again.
You didn't have to pay for it. OpenOffice is a free download from www.openoffice.org. You must have got it from somewhere else. I don't use Calc very often, so I can't help you with that part. > Background - The reason that I bought it was that I had a crash and had to > download my stuff from Carbonite. For awhile, Word was absent so I went on > line to order it. That is when I bought Open Office when all I wanted was > word again. I didn’t realize that it was going to produce problems until the > above problems kept occurring. > > So, quite simply, how do I change the default back to the old Word program? > If it can be done one way there should be an easy way to undo it. BTW, the > Command click you mentioned didn’t work. I assume you're running Windows. If so, you should be able to right click on a file and choose the desired application. There is a check box to make that the default app. > > Susan > > P.S. How about a phone number so I can quickly resolve this. A real person > on the phone helped me download this program and this is when the default to > Open Office was done. > On Mar 3, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Susan Wiebusch <swiebu...@me.com> wrote: > > This is just a mail list of users. There is no phone number, just this list. ------------------------------------------- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
