Hi Thomas,
Sorry for not being clear.
I was referring to folder option in windows explorer, not in calc.
OOo refers to any of the openoffice.org modules... calc, writer etc.
If you can run OOcalc, the use file / open to load one of your files, then the
problem may be in the name of the file. Windows uses the file extension to
identify the file type. OOCalc will read the contents to determine if the file
is a spreadsheet. If you had used 'save as' to make the copy and didn't have
'automatic file extensions' enabled in the save as dialogue, the files could
have been saved with no extension. This would leave windows no way to tell what
the file type is. Though you did state that the file type was listed as 'Excel'.
tc
thomas steel wrote:
Thank you, Anthony Chilco for responding. I hope you still have patience!
Here are my initial replies to your 3 questions:
1. I can't find anything remotely like Folder Options in Tools on
OOCalc. Please can you tell me how to find that?
2. I can't see what you mean by opening one of the files by running OOo.
What is OOo? & where would I find 'File open'?
3. Unfortunately I can't remember which method I used to get the files
into the new folder. I made copies first, for new use & then deleted the
old figures in the new copies & started afresh. Then I created a New
Folder. Then I think I used the right click method to move the old ones.
But I may have used 'Save as'. TMS
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Hi Thomas,
The icons and the file description displayed in windows explorer don't
tell you much about a file, but rather what windows thinks the file
is. This is set up in the windows file association. Have you got file
extension display turned off? If so, turn it on using 'tools / folder
options / view' and uncheck the box 'Hide extensions...'. Tell us what
the extensions on the files are.
Can you open one of these files by running OOo, and using 'file /
open', then browsing to the file?
How did you get the files into the new folder? Did you copy them or
use 'file / save as'?
tc
thomas steel wrote:
Still no response to my OOCalc problem, so let me put it another way.
Old Excel files, which converted happily to OOCalc & were regularly
worked on, now, after having been put in a new folder, describe
themselves as Excel and won't open. If no-one can tell me how to open
them, can someone at least tell me what their icons (new to me)
mean---or where I can find them described? One is green with a cross
in the middle. Others are blue bottom half and pink across the top. I
am am really stuck with this. T.M. Steel
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