On 06/16/2007 07:40 AM, Walter Hildebrandt wrote: > How do I change the zip to odt. When I right-click on the file then > click Rename, I can not see the file extension to replace the zip > with odt.
If I recall correctly (I don't use windows anymore), you need to select an option in windows explorer to enable you to see common file extentions. You should have this turned on anyway so that you can see if a trojan or virus has renamed a file or added an extention. For pre-Vista: http://beech.vcu.edu/das/homepage.nsf/BlockedExtensions?OpenPage > > Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 09:57 15/06/2007 > -0700, Walter Hildebrandt wrote: >> The website www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org has OpenOffice >> tutorials. A number of times the Users of the website have had the >> same problem. " I can't use the tutorials I downloaded. I >> extract the zip file and get several xml files, but when I open >> them all I get is computercode. What do I need to do to use the >> tutorials?" None of the pages on the website are zipped. What are >> the Users doing to get the zipped files. > > The .zip files *are*, in fact, OpenOffice Writer (.odt) document > files, but - as you say - sometimes arrive masquerading as a zip > archives (which is what OpenOffice document files are, in fact). > Don't try to extract the zipped archive (or let your operating system > do so). Instead, just rename the whole downloaded files from .zip > back to .odt and you will have no problem. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
