Thank you I downloaded from openoffice.org
I had actually attempted the fixes suggested. What I did on the end was to repair Word2013. I lost all the pictures and information in text boxes though Fortunately there had been an automatic update to my cloud account and I have been able to download that and not lost oo much Moira Dempsey On 31 December 2014 at 01:54, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: > 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 > > > >
