Fw: Document Conversion

[Mary Jo and Art Pranger <mo...@att.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Mary Jo and Art Pranger 
To: users@openoffice.org 
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 3:34 PM
Subject: Document Conversion


I originally downloaded Open Office to be able to open documents originated in this program.
When I downloaded an update, I mistakenly checked off "documents" and "spreadsheets" when installing it. I then found that all of "my documents" had been converted to Open Office documents.
Since I did not want this automatic conversion, I downloaded another update and did not check off the conversions. I got my spreadsheets back in the Excel format, but all of my Word documents were not in "Notepad" format and some are corrupted.
This is not acceptable!
How do I get my documents back to the "Word" format??!
What will happen if I uninstall the Open Office program??
Arthur Pranger

Re: Fw: Document Conversion

[Martin Groenescheij <Ma...@Groenescheij.COM>]

OpenOffice does not convert documents when you install the software.
Documents are converted when you open it in Calc or Writer, when you 
close the documents OpenOffice is so kind to ask you if you want to save 
it in the original format or in ods or odt format.
I guess that you have selected an option to associate xls and doc 
formats to OpenOffice, all that this does is set the default programs to 
OpenOffice.
You can correct this in the Control panel (assuming you use Windows).

On 14/06/2013 7:56 AM, Mary Jo and Art Pranger wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mary Jo and Art Pranger
> To: users@openoffice.org
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 3:34 PM
> Subject: Document Conversion
>
>
> I originally downloaded Open Office to be able to open documents originated in this program.
> When I downloaded an update, I mistakenly checked off "documents" and "spreadsheets" when installing it. I then found that all of "my documents" had been converted to Open Office documents.
> Since I did not want this automatic conversion, I downloaded another update and did not check off the conversions. I got my spreadsheets back in the Excel format, but all of my Word documents were not in "Notepad" format and some are corrupted.
> This is not acceptable!
> How do I get my documents back to the "Word" format??!
> What will happen if I uninstall the Open Office program??
> Arthur Pranger


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Re: Fw: Document Conversion

[Alexandro Colorado <jz...@oooes.org>]

Is old but still applicable:
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/General/I_just_installed_OOo,_now_I_can%27t_open_DOC_files_with_Word_anymore!_What_happened%3F

On 6/13/13, Mary Jo and Art Pranger <mo...@att.net> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mary Jo and Art Pranger
> To: users@openoffice.org
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 3:34 PM
> Subject: Document Conversion
>
>
> I originally downloaded Open Office to be able to open documents originated
> in this program.
> When I downloaded an update, I mistakenly checked off "documents" and
> "spreadsheets" when installing it. I then found that all of "my documents"
> had been converted to Open Office documents.
> Since I did not want this automatic conversion, I downloaded another update
> and did not check off the conversions. I got my spreadsheets back in the
> Excel format, but all of my Word documents were not in "Notepad" format and
> some are corrupted.
> This is not acceptable!
> How do I get my documents back to the "Word" format??!
> What will happen if I uninstall the Open Office program??
> Arthur Pranger


-- 
Alexandro Colorado
Apache OpenOffice Contributor
http://es.openoffice.org

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