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Posted to users@openoffice.apache.org by Doug Wilson <wi...@eastlink.ca> on 2016/04/27 17:12:20 UTC
OppenOffice converted all my files to another format
Hello,
I have just spent the last 20 minutes navigating your help and contact pages and can make no sense of them, so I am contacting you directly in hopes of finding 1. an explanation, and 2. a solution to the following:
Recently I downloaded your free open office software so I could view client files I received by email. It works great.
The problem is that all my original MSWORD template documents have been converted to the .rtf open office format. WORD no longer opens any of them. I certainly did not do this, noir would I have granted open oiffice permission to do so.
So what’s going on? I want my files returned.
Thank you.
Doug Wilson
www.amethystboutique.com
https://www.facebook.com/AmethystBoutique.NS
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RE: OppenOffice converted all my files to another format
Posted by "Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>.
Also, OpenOffice does not touch existing files in any manner. There is no automatic conversion of files. Also, .rtf is a Microsoft-specified format.
It sounds as if the File Associations (tying files of a given type to applications) have been disturbed, if you are on Windows.
Try Robert's suggestion.
Also, be sure to download Apache OpenOffice via this web page:
<http://www.openoffice.org/download/>.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Funnell [mailto:robert.funnell@mcgill.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 08:28
> To: Doug Wilson <wi...@eastlink.ca>
> Cc: users@openoffice.apache.org
> Subject: Re: OppenOffice converted all my files to another format
>
> Doug -
>
> When you say that Word 'no longer opens' them, do you mean that when
> you double-click on them they're opened in OpenOffice? If so, it means
> that the file association has been changed. Can you right-click on a
> .rtf file and choose to open it with Word?
>
> - Robert
>
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Doug Wilson wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have just spent the last 20 minutes navigating your help and contact
> pages and can make no sense of them, so I am contacting you directly in
> hopes of finding 1. an explanation, and 2. a solution to the following:
> >
> > Recently I downloaded your free open office software so I could view
> client files I received by email. It works great.
> >
> > The problem is that all my original MSWORD template documents have
> been converted to the .rtf open office format. WORD no longer opens any
> of them. I certainly did not do this, noir would I have granted open
> oiffice permission to do so.
> >
> > So whatʼs going on? I want my files returned.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Doug Wilson
> > www.amethystboutique.com
> > https://www.facebook.com/AmethystBoutique.NS
> >
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Re: OppenOffice converted all my files to another format
Posted by Robert Funnell <ro...@mcgill.ca>.
Doug -
When you say that Word 'no longer opens' them, do you mean that when
you double-click on them they're opened in OpenOffice? If so, it means
that the file association has been changed. Can you right-click on a
.rtf file and choose to open it with Word?
- Robert
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Doug Wilson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just spent the last 20 minutes navigating your help and contact pages and can make no sense of them, so I am contacting you directly in hopes of finding 1. an explanation, and 2. a solution to the following:
>
> Recently I downloaded your free open office software so I could view client files I received by email. It works great.
>
> The problem is that all my original MSWORD template documents have been converted to the .rtf open office format. WORD no longer opens any of them. I certainly did not do this, noir would I have granted open oiffice permission to do so.
>
> So what�s going on? I want my files returned.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Doug Wilson
> www.amethystboutique.com
> https://www.facebook.com/AmethystBoutique.NS
>