Brilliant! I found default program at bottom of popup window and it worked. Thank you so much!
On 21 August 2014 00:51, Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 00:20:59 -0700 > Pip Woodcock <pipwoodc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The documents show as orange icons (if that is the right terminology) on > > desktop or in my documents and when I try to open them a box comes up > > headed Microsoft Office and says "this program is unable to run because > of > > missing or corrupted files. Contact your computer manufacturer" > > > > When using Open Office 3 before if I wanted to send an attached piece of > > writing I had to change the file from Microsoft 95 to Microsoft > 97/2000/XP > > so that the recipient could read it. > > > > Some have the Open Office icon next to them and open perfectly. > > > Right click on one of these "orange" icons and select "Open With" from the > popup menu. If OpenOffice is offered from the dropdown select that, > otherwise go to the bottom of the popup window where there should be an > offering of "Select other program" and navigate to /Programs /Files(x86) > /OpenOffice and choose soffice.exe. There should also be a checkbox (or > something) to "Always use this program to open these files". Now the > "orange" icons should open by double clicking on them. > > Note that I'm not on a Windows machine, so cannot check exact wording or > paths. > > > > > > On 21 August 2014 00:01, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> wrote: > > > > > Just make a search on your computer for the correct names. To do this > > > go to Windows -> search and type the name of your doucments. > > > > > > Open the Apache OpenOffice program and go to File -> Open and open from > > > there. > > > > > > On 8/21/14, Pip Woodcock <pipwoodc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Please help me retrieve these as they are very important. Do I > > > reinstall > > > > Open Office 3 or what do I do? > > > > > > > > Thanks, Pip Woodcock > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Pip Woodcock, > > > > 2049 Cowichan Bay Road, > > > > COWICHAN BAY, B.C. V0R 1N1. > > > > 250-701-9166 > > > > pipwoodc...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Alexandro Colorado > > > Apache OpenOffice Contributor > > > 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Pip Woodcock, > > 2049 Cowichan Bay Road, > > COWICHAN BAY, B.C. V0R 1N1. > > 250-701-9166 > > pipwoodc...@gmail.com > > > -- > Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> > -- Pip Woodcock, 2049 Cowichan Bay Road, COWICHAN BAY, B.C. V0R 1N1. 250-701-9166 pipwoodc...@gmail.com
