There is good news: Your documents were not removed. It is just that there is no default program setting as the result of the installation and removal of Open Office as the default. (Apache OpenOffice does not automatically make itself the default for Microsoft Office Documents unless Microsoft Office is not installed, so I am not clear what happened.)
A. You can re-establish Microsoft Word (and Excel,etc.) this way: 1. Find a .docx document anywhere on your computer (probably in your Documents folder, or look in Recent Documents). 2. Right click on the .docx where you see it listed. 3. Select the "Open with ..." option in the pop-down menu that appears. 4. Find Microsoft Word in that list. Make sure the "make this the default" is checked (that is usually automatic). 5. It should all work after that. Do the same for Excel (.xslx) and PowerPoint (.pptx). Also for the older formats, (.doc, .xls, and .ppt). B. If you open Microsoft Office Word 2013, it should also show you your recent document usage and when you open when and it might announce that it is not the default and do you want to change that? I have not had your problem so I am not certain how and when that appears. Procedure (A) definitely works. C. Do you recall where you obtained Open Office and what version it was? If you used Apache OpenOffice, the download should have been from httP://www.openoffice.org and the version would have been 4.1.0 or 4.1.1 (for the latest). - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Moira Dempsey [mailto:moira2...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 04:01 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: I have lost all my Word 2013 documents Hi I have no idea who to contact - and I am so upset Someone sent me open office documents - so I downloaded open office as there was a connecting chart I could not open As open office made itself the default program that I did not want I uninstalled it - and much to my chagrin I now have lost access to all my 2013 docx documents. Including to all my course manual masters. To say that I am upset is an understatement. While I have everything backed up to a cloud account I am now doing to have to spend days finding and downloading documents, as well as spending days recreating the manual I was working on As I am not at home at the moment I do not have access to the repair information for my microsoft programs Why do you set yourself as the automatic default program - I did not see any box for that??? To say that I am not impressed with open office is an understatement Do you have a solution to the problem Moira Dempsey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
