shane wrote:
wonder if you could help me with a problem that seams to have come out of the blue - using open office 2.0.1 on a dell dimension 5000 windows xp home edition - i use the spreadsheet with a password for my banking as i say on opening the file today instead of going to password it takes me to a box that is headed ASCII Filter Options - what ever i enter or not enter it appears to take me to open office writer and put a load of nonsence letters symbols on screen - tried reloading file from a backup file on dvd and uninstalling and reinstalling open office any ideas
You haven't provided the type of file.
If the file extension is either .ods or .sxc, and you can still read
other files of that kind, then the file itself has somehow become corrupted.
Note: the fact that you have placed a password on a file does not
prevent anyone from opening a file in an application such as a text
editor, changing the garbage they see either accidentally or purposely,
and then resaving.
If the file has accidently got the incorrect suffix attached to it, just
renaming the file in Windows to have the correct suffix, whether .ods
or .sxc, should fix it.
If your are saving in another format, such as Excel format (extension
.xls) you might try opening this in another application that can read
this sort of file such as MS Excel for an .xls file). If the other
application can open it, try resaving, possibly in different formats,
and try opening those formats in Calc.
If you have automatic backup turned on, then you may have an earlier
uncorrupt version of the file you can use. (The backup facility can be
turned on in Tools -> Options... -> OpenOffice.org -> Load/Save ->
General.) If you have this backup facility turned on, then you should
find a backup file in the path listed in Tools -> Options... ->
OpenOffice.org -> Paths with the same stem name as your problem file but
with the extension .bak. You should be able to open this from within
OpenOffice.org.
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