On Thursday 23 August 2007 07:07:55 James Knott wrote: > Brian Barker wrote: > > At 06:44 23/08/2007 +0800, Ted Yeend wrote: > >> Recently I have found a problem in saving a file in open > >> office. I follow the normal way to open a new file type in my > >> text in writer and then save as but when I try to open the > >> file it initially tells me to open in a list including open > >> office org. this then produces a reading error -error reading > >> file. This then means that I cannot open the file at all. In > >> the past I have had no problems even changing the file to be > >> read in Word etc. The icon recently is not the similar wavy > >> icon. Can you help. Thanks > > > > There are a couple of possibilities here: > > > > 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 which > > application to use in opening them. Rename the existing files > > with the appropriate extensions and replace this tick for > > future saves, and you should be OK. > > Windows is the only OS that I know of that requires file > extensions. Linux and OS/2 don't. I don't know about Macs. So, > perhaps the only "strange" thing, is that Windows requires them. > But another example, where Windows is deficient.
The MAC has been based on Unix/BSD/NextSTEP from the beginning in 1985 it probably does not require file extensions anymore than Unix/Linux/BSD. I don't have MAC so I can't check it. -- http://24.197.142.167/ See the OpenOffice.org FAQ Microsoft users go to http://www.pclinuxos.com for a great user friendly Linux experience! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
