At 14:59 19/08/2007 -0700, Richard Reich wrote:
I downloaded (and bought) open office 2.2 on July 17th and have
liked it alot. But recently I had a virus and after cleaning the
open office writer creates documents without the normal icons and
capabilities. I've tried reinstalling from the original installer
but no improvement. Can I download from you again? I think it may
have something to do with the active X?
PS Most of the programs on my program list now have these generic
icons as well. What can be done?
First, there is no need to buy OpenOffice: it is available free of
charge from the www.openoffice.org web site. You can download from
there if you wish, but you very probably do not need to.
There are a couple of possibilities for the generic icons:
o OpenOffice has a strange option: there is an "Automatic file name
extension" tick box at the bottom of the Save As... dialogue
box. This should normally be ticked. If this has lost its tick, you
will be saving your Writer files, for example, as <name> instead of
<name>.odt. Like this, your operating system will not know what icon
to give these files or what application to use in opening
them. Rename the file with the appropriate extensions and replace
this tick, and you should be OK.
o Your operating system may have lost its collection of associations
between file types (normally indicated by extensions) and the
appropriate application. How you correct this depends on your
operating system. In Windows, for example, you need to right-click a
file of the appropriate type and choose Open With > | Choose
Program... . Make sure that the "Always use the selected program to
open this kind of file" box is ticked, and then select OpenOffice in
the Programs list. Select OK. Do this once for each file type. In
future, clicking on files of the same types to open them should start
OpenOffice.
The generic icons in your programs menu probably means that the
programs themselves are no longer installed even though the pointers
to them still appear in the menu folders. The easiest solution is to
reinstall the programs, as you have done with OpenOffice.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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