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.

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- 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" <[email protected]>
To: "Christine Lawrence" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
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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