On Tuesday October 23 2007 10:21 am, jack gagnon wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I recently installed Vista Home Basic on a new system. I have also now
> installed OpenOffice.org v 2.3.
>
> My old Windows ME software would open all my old .doc and .wps files.
> When these .doc and .wps files were transferred to Vista, Vista labeled
> all of these "non-.rtf" files as OpenDocument Text. When I try to open
> them, I get the drop down Filter menu, but there is nothing that opens
> these files.
>
> OpenOffice.org Writer is a standard part of Vista, but I downloaded
> OpenOffice.org v 2.3 anyway. No improvement. Even when I choose
> OpenDocument Text from the filter menu,(it's right below StarChart 4.0
> and right above Microsoft Word 2003 XML in the filter selection) the
> response is: "General error - General input/output error." I still
> cannot open any of the older .wps or .doc files. that are named
> OpenDocument text.
>
> What can I do? The only text files I can open are the ones in .rtf Rich
> Text format, and I cannot open any of the others to convert them. I'm
> stuck!! Please Help!
>
> jack gagnon
> lakeville, maine
OpenOffice.org Writer is not a standard part of Vista. Someone
installed it on your computer before you got it. And they probably
associated all MS Office file formats with OOo (OpenOffice.org) when they
installed it. Then Vista associated all of these "not RTF" files with OOo
as well.
Suggestion: You probably have file extensions turned off. You need to
turn that back on. See your windows documentation for how to do this. Then
try to open one of the files ending in .doc in OpenOffice.org using this
filter: Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP. It should open it.
For files ending with .wps, you might want to download the Works
viewer program from Microsoft. You can open these files, and then save
them as .doc files.
After doing these two things, I would save all of these files as
OpenDocument files (File > Save As).
Dan
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