Dear Harold: Good heavens! from despair to solution in one click! Thankyou!
(Your second solution I'd tried before & couldn't make work, but the first
was so simple!). Anyway, I've struggled with this for weeks & have been
posting it for a week or more, so Thankyou. Tom Steel, London.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Fuchs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "Jack D. Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [users] Crippling extensions
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" <
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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
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