Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Patrick Durusau
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

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Alan B
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

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Robert Funnell
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

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Christine Lawrence
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

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Christine Lawrence
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

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Christine Lawrence
: 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

I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Christine Lawrence
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

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Robert Funnell
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

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Christine Lawrence
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

RE: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
: 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

RE: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
: 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

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Robert Funnell
, 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

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Alexandro Colorado
*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

RE: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
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

Re: I have lost everything

2015-03-10 Thread Alexandro Colorado
.? 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