Microsoft word is probably associated with OpenOffice documents so when he double clicked on one the automatic association probably tried to load a Microsoft product.
It is a simple matter to reassociate the file types. I'm not a strong Windows user so I won't even try to provide instruction on how to do that, but a quick Google search and show you how to reassociate the file types. Also, you should be able to manually load your word processor and then use file open to open the document Sent from BlueMail On Mar 8, 2020, 10:39 AM, at 10:39 AM, Wade Smart <wadesm...@gmail.com> wrote: >Depending payment for OO or for the OS? >My wifes W10 laptop has LO installed and >we have not seen that dialog box. > > >-- >Registered Linux User: #480675 >Registered Linux Machine: #408606 >Linux since June 2005 > >On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 8:57 AM Stuart Walton ><stuartwal...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >> >> Since I updated the version of Windows 10 I was using on my PC, I >find I am no longer able to access my Open Office .odt douments without >getting a big dialog box from Microsoft demanding payment. None of my >files is saved in Word, but it won’t let me access them even so. I have >saved everything on to a USB device, but it won’t let me access them >there either. I tried copying the existing files into new .odt files >and it won’t let me do that either. >> >> How come Microsoft is taking over an entirely separate free >word-processing system? And is there anything I can do to get around it >without paying Microsoft for their system, which I don’t want? >> >> Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for >Windows 10 >> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
