excel seems to have taken over my data

[Tom and Judy McInctyre <13...@gmail.com>]

All my files in Open Office Calc, (I believe it is called) going back 5 or
6 years are now shown to be in Excel but do not have any data in them
except underline
The system I have is (unfortunately) Windows 10

Re: excel seems to have taken over my data

[Pedro Lino <pe...@mailbox.org>]

Hi Tom and Judy

You have posted in the developer's mailing list.
In the future if you need assistance please post your questions at https://forum.openoffice.org/


>     All my files in Open Office Calc, (I believe it is called) going back 5 or
>     6 years are now shown to be in Excel but do not have any data in them
>     except underline
>     The system I have is (unfortunately) Windows 10
> 

Your best option to check what is wrong is to install a Portable version of Apache OpenOffice
https://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable
and open your files to make sure all data is there.

If all is well and you  prefer to continue to use OpenOffice as your default Office suite you can install the latest version after downloading from
http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html

Best regards
Pedro

Re: excel seems to have taken over my data

[David Robley <ro...@gmail.com>]

Probably a Windows update has changed the file associations for those 
files to MS Office instead of OpenOffice. Try changing the file 
associations back to OpenOffice.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/change-default-browser-program-windows-10 
is a link with pictures showing ways of changing default programs in Win 10.

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On 20/3/19 12:34 pm, Tom and Judy McInctyre wrote:
> All my files in Open Office Calc, (I believe it is called) going back 5 or
> 6 years are now shown to be in Excel but do not have any data in them
> except underline
> The system I have is (unfortunately) Windows 10
>

Cheers
-- 
David Robley

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