On Tue February 7 2006 14:16, Samantha Perry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My OOo 2.0 Writer has suddenly started saving .doc or .odt files as
> application/octet files. I'm using the 'save as' command correctly -
> have been successfully using OOo for nearly a year now - and have also
> tried manually changing the file extensions with no success. I've
> removed and reinstalled OOo 2.0 as well as tried using the repair tool
> on the OOo 2.0 CD with no success.
>
> I'm running the latest version of XP on a Toshiba laptop.
Please try to save the files without an extension (or by changing the name
of the file), then when you try to open it with OpenOffice.org, it tries to
guess which file type it is by looking at the contents of the file.
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