Dear Jim: Thank you for your help & especially for expressing it simply. I
have spent hours trying to follow! I couldn't make your steps work, but I
did manage to unhide extensions another way. One of the problem files (to
take an example) has the extension: ".xlsm.xlsm" (inverted commas mine).
I have also found my way (again by another route) to 'Open with', which
produces a list of scores of programme names, none recognisable to me. There
is no 'scalc' among them (though there is a 'starcalc'). Can you please
advise? (By the way I did ask what OOo was, but I now realise that it must
be the same as OO). Can I also say that I'm grateful to Anthony Chilco for
his help, too & that I hope he'll keep an eye open to this! Tom Steel.
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From: "Jim Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 11:52 PM
Subject: [users] Re: OOCalc problem
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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