At 17:15 30/08/2008 -0500, Morris Gratton wrote:
I have been using Open Office for a while now & I love it.
But right now I have a problem. When print a Document and want to
save it to "My Documents" It goes there, but when I want to open it
the usual Open Office icon is not there. In it's place is a
different icon, and when I click on it a box come up that asks me to
choose what program I want to open it with. I can choose Open Office
and it opens. But up until today I didn't have to do that, because
the Open Office icon was there and I could simply click on it and
the document would immediately open.
What do you think made it change and how can I fix it.
Here's a possibility. OpenOffice has a strange option in the Save
As... dialogue box. Near the bottom, you will see an "Automatic file
name extension" tick box. Has this become unticked? If it has, you
will be saving documents in the correct format, but the files will
not be getting the proper extension. So a document will be called
just "name" rather than "name.odt", "name.ods", and so on. Like
this, they will not open in OpenOffice when they are double-clicked
(since your operating system - apparently Windows - will not know
what application to use), but they can be opened, in fact: just start
OpenOffice first and use File | Open... to browse to and open the file.
Solution?
o Rename any existing files to add the correct extension.
o Replace the tick in the box, and newly saved files will be saved
with correct extensions.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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