2008/4/28 thomas steel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear Jack: No, that can't be right, because the 2008-9 versions of those > files were created as copies of the now crippled ones & they all have an > 'ods' extension. It was the act of putting the 2007-8 originals into a New > Folder which suddenly turned them into something unopenable. (Excel was > deleted from my system long ago). There must be some way of rescuing this > material. TS > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack D. Lewis" < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 8:04 PM > Subject: Re: [users] Crippling extensions > > > > thomas steel wrote the following on 4/28/2008 12:43 PM: > > > > > Can I update my problem very precisely? I have some files with the > > > extensions '.xlsm' & '.xlsm.xlsm', which refuse to open. I converted them > > > from OOCalc ages ago & worked on them happily in Calc. I then shunted them > > > into one New Folder. When I go to that Folder, I find these strange > > > extensions. How can I reconvert them, please? T.M. Steel > > > > > > > > Thomas, > > You said that you converted them from OOCalc. Since the .xslm file > > extension is associated with Excel 2007, I don't believe you were working on > > them in OOCalc. More likely you were working on them in Excel. OOCalc can > > not open files of that type. > > > > -- > > Jack > > > > > > You can simply rename them to change the extensions back to whatever you want. Alternatively you can change the "File Association" (Windows jargon) for each extension so that Windows uses a different program to open them. To do this, once for each different extension: Right click a sample file Choose Properties Click the Change button next to where it says "Opens with" Choose the appropriate program Tick (check) the "Aways use this program ..." box Click OK
OpenOffice can't (yet) open MS Office 2007 files - those with ".docx", ".xlsx", etc. extensions. Version 3, due in September will be able to import these files. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
