Re: New Computer - Microsoft has changed my documents to Word

2021-01-13 Thread Steven Ahlers
Jennie,

The File Association of your documents has been changed. This is something that 
Windoz is pretty aggressive about doing. To fix this open the File Explorer app 
in Windows System (or the File Folder icon on the Task Bar). In the window for 
File Explorer open the folder that has your Writer files in it. Highlight one 
of your Writer files and then click on the triangle (down arrow) to the right 
of Open. This will bring up a menu of choices of programs to open that file in. 
If OpenOffice Writer is not in that list chose “Chose another app” and search 
through that list to find OpenOffice Writer, click OpenOffice Writer and then 
check box “Always use this app to open .odt files” this will change the file 
association on all .odt files to OpenOffice Writer. If you have saved text 
documents in other file formats then you will need to change the file 
association for those formats as well.

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Thank you,

Steve 

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> On Jan 12, 2021, at 4:14 PM, Jennie Bickerton  
> wrote:
> 
> Hi and Help
> I have a new computer, have downloaded Apache Open Office, and have copied 
> documents that are Open Office ODT onto my new computer via a Flash Drive. 
> Now all of my files appear to be Word documents and when I attempt to open a 
> document, the Microsoft popup wants to prompt me to purchase their software 
> which I do not want.  I get a message that I have to delete the S app and 
> afterwards can never add it again.
> I have tried to change/open via AOF but that doesn't work.  Do I have to 
> purchase the AOF app and if I do purchase, will Microsoft then allow me to 
> change the documents into OF?  
> Any help will be appreciated!!  


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Re: New Computer - Microsoft has changed my documents to Word

2021-01-13 Thread Dick Groskamp



On 2021/01/12 21:59:07, Jennie Bickerton  wrote: 
> Hi and Help
> I have a new computer, have downloaded Apache Open Office, and have copied 
> documents that are Open Office ODT onto my new computer via a Flash Drive. 
> Now all of my files appear to be Word documents and when I attempt to open a 
> document, the Microsoft popup wants to prompt me to purchase their software 
> which I do not want.  I get a message that I have to delete the S app and 
> afterwards can never add it again.
> I have tried to change/open via AOF but that doesn't work.  Do I have to 
> purchase the AOF app and if I do purchase, will Microsoft then allow me to 
> change the documents into OF?  
> Any help will be appreciated!!  

Have a look here:
https://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/how-to-change-the-default-program-to-open-a-file-with/

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Re: New Computer - Microsoft has changed my documents to Word

2021-01-12 Thread Alan Pearce
Right click  the file you want to open and select open with. Working from 
memory , it may be open as.

Alan

 Original message 
From: Jennie Bickerton  
Date: 12/01/2021  21:59  (GMT+00:00) 
To: users@openoffice.apache.org 
Subject: New Computer - Microsoft has changed my documents to Word 

Hi and HelpI have a new computer, have downloaded Apache Open Office, and have 
copied documents that are Open Office ODT onto my new computer via a Flash 
Drive. Now all of my files appear to be Word documents and when I attempt to 
open a document, the Microsoft popup wants to prompt me to purchase their 
software which I do not want.  I get a message that I have to delete the S app 
and afterwards can never add it again.I have tried to change/open via AOF but 
that doesn't work.  Do I have to purchase the AOF app and if I do purchase, 
will Microsoft then allow me to change the documents into OF?  Any help will be 
appreciated!!