thomas steel wrote:
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?
Go into any standard folder in windows so that it the folder is open in
a windows on your desktop and and show any files or subfolders that it
contains. You can do this through “My Computer” in the Start Menu.
Double-click on the C drive and then Double-click on any folder to open
it. Make sure that the entry “Hide extensions for known file types” does
NOT have a check mark in front of it. If it does, tick it to remove the
check mark. Then mouse-press the button which reads “Apply to All Folders”.
This will assure that the file extensions will always be visible to you.
There is really no reason that these should ever be hidden, save that
Microsoft seemed at one time to be trying to make their system look like
a Macintosh and Macintosh files normally had no extensions.
The file extension is on the end of the file name, after a period. You
can now easily see exactly what extension is on any file.
It is possible that someone at one time on your system attempted to open
a file with an application that couldn’t handle it, but told the
operating system that it could. Or a wired glitch of some kind or
perhaps a virus might do this. It might also happened if you someone
installed a program that happens to use the same extensions that
OpenOffice.org uses.
To reset:
Right click on one of the files, select the “Open With” entry, and from
the submenu select “Choose program...”. The dialog box that comes up
should show all programs that have ever been associated with that kind
of file on your system and will show you wish one is now associated with
that particular file type.
If the extension on the file is one of those supported by
OpenOffice.org, then select soffice for an OpenOffice.org Writer file,
scalc for an OpenOffice.org Calc file, and so forth. You can insert a
check mark before the statement “Always use the selected program to open
this kind of file”. This will reassociate files with the selected
extension with that application, but the icons may remain unchanged
until you reboot your machine. But clicking on them should immediately
call up the application to which they are now associated.
You can get a complete list of the extensions that can be opened by
OpenOffice.org by going into any OpenOffice.org application and
selecting “Open...” from the “File Menu”. The dialog box that comes up
contains a list box called “Files of type:”. If you select that box, you
will see a list that contains all the extensions of files that this
application of OpenOffice.org can handle.
You should be able to open any of these files through this Open dialog
box regardless of what other application it is now rightly or wrongly
associated with. (For example, though Writer can be associated with MS
Word “.doc” files, many users prefer “.doc” files to be associated with
Microsoft Word Viewer. But they can still be opened within
OpenOffice.org Writer.)
What we need to know is what extension actually appears on files that
are causing a problem and whether reassociating them with OpenOffice.org
programs fixes any problems.
Another possibility is that someone has purposely changed the extensions
on those files.
Jim Allan
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