You need to set up OpenOffice as a default application for ODS, XLS, XLSX. OpenOffice does this for you by default when you install it on your computer under this dialog: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Getting_Started/File_associations
If you miss that chanced and AOO is already on your box, making the association manually should be done from the windows side. Here is a process on how Windows 8 do file association: http://winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-tip-change-file-associations-144102 On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:46 AM, <rosegallo...@talktalk.net> wrote: > > Good Afternoon > > Please accept my apologies if I have sent this to the wrong department but > I have tried all the information pages to see if they could help > before contacting anyone and I am struggling to find an answer to my > problem, > > I have subscribed to Open Office for a long time and have never had any > problems - up to two weeks ago I had a Dell PC with Vista on and > Open Office worked fine on that > > I had some emails with Spreadsheets attached and they opened fine on > Windows 8 but now if I try that all I get is the file option asking me > to choose a program from the list to save it in - and Open Office is not > one of them > > Why are the Spreadsheets not saving - I put in save to ODF but to no > effect, I just do not know how to correct this > > I would appreciate any help with this > > Many thanks & Kind Regards > > Rose Galloway > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://www.openoffice.org 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
