Congratulations! It's good to stick with it long enough for the fairy
dust to materialize :-)
- Robert
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Christine Lawrence wrote:
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"
<[email protected]>
To: "Christine Lawrence" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
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"
> <[email protected]>
> To: "Christine Lawrence" <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> 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"
> > > <[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
> > > >
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
