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
