Re: I have lost everything
Christine Don't reinstall, at least not yet. What do you mean by cannot open documents? When you do file - open, can you see the documents? If so, what message do you get if you try to open the document? So long as the documents are still present on your drive, there is no reason for concern. I would make a backup of them in any event. Hope this helps. Patrick On 03/10/2015 08:39 PM, Christine Lawrence wrote: 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
Re: I have lost everything
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Christine Lawrence cflawre...@homemail.com.au wrote: 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 ??? Christine, the program doesn't do that. And yes you could install 3.3. But please, a bit more information should enable better support for you. First, what operating system (Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Mac OSX, etc) are you using? Second, how are you trying to open the files? - open the program then use File | Open to open a file or - double-click on a file If the double-click method is being used - what message appears after double-clicking? - are the file icons different than they were before the upgrade? Thank you for your patience while we try to understand and resolve your problem.
Re: I have lost everything
Christine - I don't remember Windows Vista very well, but if you right-click on one of your documents, do you see something about choosing the default program to open them with? If so, you can tell it to use your new OpenOffice and that will then apply to all of your documents. (Please do Reply to All if you answer, so your message also goes to the whole list and not just to me.) - Robert On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Christine Lawrence wrote: Thank you so much for getting back so quickly Robert. I'm in heart attack territory here! I have Windows Vista on my computer. I have been using Open Office 3.3 very happily for years. I haven't lost any actual ocuments. They all seem to be there. I just can't open any of them by the usual method of clicking on the document icon. I am getting messages that seem to imply I am going to have to convert hundreds of docs using Doxillon or something similar - one by one? Wouldn't it be easier to just reinstall 3.3? Christine I haven't - Original Message - From: Robert Funnell robert.funn...@mcgill.ca To: Christine Lawrence cflawre...@homemail.com.au Cc: users@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:51 AM Subject: Re: I have lost everything On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Christine Lawrence wrote: 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 How exactly are you trying to open the documents? And what exactly happens when you try? What operating system are you using? Windows? Many people have done such an upgrade without losing anything, so I'm optimistic that you haven't lost your documents. - Robert - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: I have lost everything
Hello Dennis I've attracted quite a crowd. I have Windows Vista Home Basic installed on my system. 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
Re: I have lost everything
Sorry Robert I calmed down enoughnow to realise about reply all after the last email. I can't actually open the 4.1.1. version of any of my documents. If I double click I just get the Doxillon converter, not the document itself. So I have to click on 'convert' before I can see the doc. If I click on the converted document I first get the Apache Open Office logo and then the doc opens . I can right click and click on default formatting but it just creates an identical document that I then have to save. All the formatting remains a disaster. The Libreoffice will be down loaded in about 5 mins so I'll see if that makes any difference. Christine - Original Message - From: Robert Funnell robert.funn...@mcgill.ca To: Christine Lawrence cflawre...@homemail.com.au Cc: users@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12:23 PM Subject: Re: I have lost everything Christine - I don't remember Windows Vista very well, but if you right-click on one of your documents, do you see something about choosing the default program to open them with? If so, you can tell it to use your new OpenOffice and that will then apply to all of your documents. (Please do Reply to All if you answer, so your message also goes to the whole list and not just to me.) - Robert On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Christine Lawrence wrote: Thank you so much for getting back so quickly Robert. I'm in heart attack territory here! I have Windows Vista on my computer. I have been using Open Office 3.3 very happily for years. I haven't lost any actual ocuments. They all seem to be there. I just can't open any of them by the usual method of clicking on the document icon. I am getting messages that seem to imply I am going to have to convert hundreds of docs using Doxillon or something similar - one by one? Wouldn't it be easier to just reinstall 3.3? Christine I haven't - Original Message - From: Robert Funnell robert.funn...@mcgill.ca To: Christine Lawrence cflawre...@homemail.com.au Cc: users@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:51 AM Subject: Re: I have lost everything On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Christine Lawrence wrote: 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 How exactly are you trying to open the documents? And what exactly happens when you try? What operating system are you using? Windows? Many people have done such an upgrade without losing anything, so I'm optimistic that you haven't lost your documents. - Robert - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: I have lost everything
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
Re: I have lost everything
Maybe I wasn't clear, or maybe I'm not clear about what you're doing. Instead of double-clicking on the document icon, if you right-click, does a menu pop up that allows you do choose which program to use to open the file? On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Christine Lawrence wrote: Sorry Robert I calmed down enoughnow to realise about reply all after the last email. I can't actually open the 4.1.1. version of any of my documents. If I double click I just get the Doxillon converter, not the document itself. So I have to click on 'convert' before I can see the doc. If I click on the converted document I first get the Apache Open Office logo and then the doc opens . I can right click and click on default formatting but it just creates an identical document that I then have to save. All the formatting remains a disaster. The Libreoffice will be down loaded in about 5 mins so I'll see if that makes any difference. Christine - Original Message - From: Robert Funnell robert.funn...@mcgill.ca To: Christine Lawrence cflawre...@homemail.com.au Cc: users@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12:23 PM Subject: Re: I have lost everything Christine - I don't remember Windows Vista very well, but if you right-click on one of your documents, do you see something about choosing the default program to open them with? If so, you can tell it to use your new OpenOffice and that will then apply to all of your documents. (Please do Reply to All if you answer, so your message also goes to the whole list and not just to me.) - Robert On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Christine Lawrence wrote: Thank you so much for getting back so quickly Robert. I'm in heart attack territory here! I have Windows Vista on my computer. I have been using Open Office 3.3 very happily for years. I haven't lost any actual ocuments. They all seem to be there. I just can't open any of them by the usual method of clicking on the document icon. I am getting messages that seem to imply I am going to have to convert hundreds of docs using Doxillon or something similar - one by one? Wouldn't it be easier to just reinstall 3.3? Christine I haven't - Original Message - From: Robert Funnell robert.funn...@mcgill.ca To: Christine Lawrence cflawre...@homemail.com.au Cc: users@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:51 AM Subject: Re: I have lost everything On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Christine Lawrence wrote: 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 How exactly are you trying to open the documents? And what exactly happens when you try? What operating system are you using? Windows? Many people have done such an upgrade without losing anything, so I'm optimistic that you haven't lost your documents. - Robert - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: I have lost everything
Hello everyone I have just watched my system download libreoffce from the site suggested by Jay. It took 20mins so something was happening. Now its done I can find no evidence of it on my system. Open Office 4.1.1 is listed among my programs bur nothing called libreoffice is. Should it show up and how will it manifest itself? Christine - Original Message - From: Jay To: Christine Lawrence Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:59 AM Subject: Re: I have lost everything Original Message From: Christine Lawrence cflawre...@homemail.com.au To: users@openoffice.apache.org Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:39:16 +1100 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 Hi Christine, Don't panic, you have NOT lost any documents. There is a long and complicated solution to your issue, but there is also a much quicker and easier option available. Download and install LibreOffice: http://www.libreoffice.org/ the enhanced edition of the software, from the community based Document Foundation: http://www.documentfoundation.org/ The latest release of LibreOffice has many improvements, which, for various technical and licensing reasons, are unlikely to be added to other editions of the software. This will give you a much improved and more reliable version of the same software. It is not necessary to uninstall or do anything with the Apache edition if you want to try LibreOffice, the integrity of your files will be fully protected and remain accessible to both programs. Jay
RE: I have lost everything
There are two things to try, starting with the easy one first. A. The easy way 1. Start Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1. Do that from your All Programs menu or, if an icon was put on your desktop, use it. We are not going to open any documents just yet. 2. When AOO is open and you see the dashboard that gives you a choice of functions, look at the menu across the top of the OpenOffice window. 3. Click Tools on the menu bar, and then click Options 4. On the Options - OpenOffice dialog left sidebar, click on the + Load/Save entry and when that expands to - Load/Save, click on Microsoft Office in the list underneath. 5. In the Options - Load/Save - Microsoft Office dialog window, click on all four check boxes in the [L] column. Click OK. 6. In the Open ... entry on the dashboard, there might not be any list of previously-opened documents. Remember this, though, it will help you find documents in the future. 7. You can also use the top menu File Open ... to explore folders and find documents that way. (You can also use the File Recent Documents ... option once you've been using AOO for a while.) 8. But for now, Close OpenOffice. 9. Now navigate Vista to a folder that has some of your saved-as .doc files. They should now appear to have different icons (if you are viewing icons). If you double-click on these, they should open in Apache OpenOffice. If (9) doesn't work, we can go to plan B. Let us know and we can dive into that. It is something that is useful to know, but let's hold off right now. - Dennis PS: Thanks for subscribing to users@ openoffice.apache.org. As you saw, there was much traffic in response to your messages. -Original Message- From: Christine Lawrence [mailto:cflawre...@homemail.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 19:02 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: I have lost everything 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 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
RE: I have lost everything
Christine, LibreOffice does not install automatically when you download it, unless you said that it should be run instead of saved. If the installer ran, you would have been taken through a series of dialogs, not unlike when you installed Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1. The difference is that LibreOffice for Windows is a .msi file, not an .exe file. You should find it, perhaps in your Downloads folder, and double-click on it. It should be a file with a name of the form LibreOffice_4.4.0_Win_x86.msi. - Dennis PS: You might have downloaded the Help Pack by mistake. That is named on the pattern LibreOffice_4.4.0_Win_x86_helppack_en-US.msi (unless there is an _en-AU.msi, but I doubt it). If you have just the Help Pack, there is nothing to see until LibreOffice itself is installed. PPS: This might not help, either, and if it does, great. -Original Message- From: Christine Lawrence [mailto:cflawre...@homemail.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 18:53 To: jayand1...@gmail.com Cc: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: I have lost everything Hello everyone I have just watched my system download libreoffce from the site suggested by Jay. It took 20mins so something was happening. Now its done I can find no evidence of it on my system. Open Office 4.1.1 is listed among my programs bur nothing called libreoffice is. Should it show up and how will it manifest itself? [ ... ] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: I have lost everything
Congratulations! It's good to stick with it long enough for the fairy dust to materialize :-) - Robert On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Christine Lawrence wrote: YES I went to open with and selected open office writer as the default program and magic fairy dust happened. Even my letterhead has come back. I have some quite big submission docs and I've checked on them. I also have whole chapters of a book that seem not to be unduly effected. Some of the formatting is a little odd but nothing like it was previously. I THINK YOU HAVE DONE IT. Thank you so much all of you for making an effort for me. It is nice to be rescued by strangers. I think I will go an eat now. Many kind thoughts Christine - Original Message - From: Robert Funnell robert.funn...@mcgill.ca To: Christine Lawrence cflawre...@homemail.com.au Cc: users@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 1:00 PM Subject: Re: I have lost everything Maybe I wasn't clear, or maybe I'm not clear about what you're doing. Instead of double-clicking on the document icon, if you right-click, does a menu pop up that allows you do choose which program to use to open the file? On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Christine Lawrence wrote: Sorry Robert I calmed down enoughnow to realise about reply all after the last email. I can't actually open the 4.1.1. version of any of my documents. If I double click I just get the Doxillon converter, not the document itself. So I have to click on 'convert' before I can see the doc. If I click on the converted document I first get the Apache Open Office logo and then the doc opens . I can right click and click on default formatting but it just creates an identical document that I then have to save. All the formatting remains a disaster. The Libreoffice will be down loaded in about 5 mins so I'll see if that makes any difference. Christine - Original Message - From: Robert Funnell robert.funn...@mcgill.ca To: Christine Lawrence cflawre...@homemail.com.au Cc: users@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12:23 PM Subject: Re: I have lost everything Christine - I don't remember Windows Vista very well, but if you right-click on one of your documents, do you see something about choosing the default program to open them with? If so, you can tell it to use your new OpenOffice and that will then apply to all of your documents. (Please do Reply to All if you answer, so your message also goes to the whole list and not just to me.) - Robert On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Christine Lawrence wrote: Thank you so much for getting back so quickly Robert. I'm in heart attack territory here! I have Windows Vista on my computer. I have been using Open Office 3.3 very happily for years. I haven't lost any actual ocuments. They all seem to be there. I just can't open any of them by the usual method of clicking on the document icon. I am getting messages that seem to imply I am going to have to convert hundreds of docs using Doxillon or something similar - one by one? Wouldn't it be easier to just reinstall 3.3? Christine I haven't - Original Message - From: Robert Funnell robert.funn...@mcgill.ca To: Christine Lawrence cflawre...@homemail.com.au Cc: users@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:51 AM Subject: Re: I have lost everything On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Christine Lawrence wrote: 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 How exactly are you trying to open the documents? And what exactly happens when you try? What operating system are you using? Windows? Many people have done such an upgrade without losing anything, so I'm optimistic that you haven't lost your documents. - Robert - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: I have lost everything
You are welcome and is great that it worked for you. Just remember this issue has nothing really to do with OpenOffice. As a matter of fact this could happen with any piece of file (document, music, image, etc.), for example anytime you install a new video or music player, your music could be redirected to that new player. Is just the way Windows handles relationship between file formats (pdf, doc, mp3, mp4, etc.) and applications. Cheers from Cancun. On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Christine Lawrence cflawre...@homemail.com.au wrote: 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 j...@oooes.org *To:* users@openoffice.apache.org ; Christine Lawrence cflawre...@homemail.com.au *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 -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
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
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
