Thank you for this Alexandro, and everyone else It all makes sense when viewed in retrospect but for those of us who are basically typists using a computer, having the system appear to go into outright revolt is totally crippling. I tried to find something on the community site to help me but I was so panic stricken I probably wouldn't have recognised it if I saw it. Thank goodness there are people out there who want to help the helpless!
Regards Christine From: Alexandro Colorado To: users@openoffice.apache.org ; Christine Lawrence Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 1:52 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-office-documents/ On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Christine Lawrence <cflawre...@homemail.com.au> wrote: Gentlemen I've had a small lightbulb which may help. I have very few documents that are saved in Open Office. This is because I have a huge distribution and quite a few of my people can't read open office using their operating systems. So I convert docs to word before they go anywhere. I have just found an Open Office 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> To: <users@openoffice.apache.org> Cc: <cflawre...@homemail.com.au> 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 them again. Installing Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 does not touch user documents at all. First, what is the Operating System on your Computer? If you provide that, we can guide you to finding your files again. - Dennis PS: You have reached a public mailing list on which volunteers contribute to questions from other users like themselves. For any follow-up, please reply to users@openoffice.apache.org where expert users can offer 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 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
