On Mon, 2 Jun 2014 15:59:22 -0700 "Doug Thomas" <d...@dougthomas.biz> wrote:
> I downloaded open office. I didn't like the format of the word processer > documents, so I removed the program. Now, my hundreds and hundreds of MS > Word documents have all been re-formatted to Word Pad, which is totally > unacceptable. I can't even save a new Word document - they all turn into > Word Pad. How do I get my Word documents back to Word format? I am very > upset at this change! > > Doug Thomas > > Your files have not been touched in any way. What has happened is that the File Associations on your computer, which determine what program opens a particular type of file, have been set so that .doc files open in WordPad. You need to reset the File Associations to point to MS Office or MS Word; details are given in this posting https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12918 -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org