[Solved] OpenOffice changes icons of Rich Text documents

[Sam825]

When I installed the latest Open Office on a PC with Windows 7, all the icons of my Rich Text documents changed look. I did not like that. I had expected that Open Office would leave the old documents alone and only introduce a new icon for newly created documents. Obviously this is a flaw in the software. Maybe some developers will read this and can change that in future versions.
I had to uninstall Open Office and then restore my system to an earlier date to get the old document icons back.
Obviously I will newer use Open Office again.

[Bill]

Obviously this is a flaw in the software. Maybe some developers will read this and can change that in future versions.

Obviously OpenOffice was changed to the default program for opening RTF files which changed the icon. Icons are related to the default program, not the file name extension. It's not a flaw. It's how things work in Windows.

I had to uninstall Open Office and then restore my system to an earlier date to get the old document icons back.
Obviously I will newer use Open Office again.

Obviously you could just have changed the default program setting back to whatever was opening RTF files before you installed OpenOffice. You didn't have to uninstall OpenOffice or restore your system.

[Sam825]

Thank you for explaining. Maybe this can be useful to know for other ordinary users.

[John_Ha]

See [Tutorial] Differences between Writer and MS Word files for why you should always work in and save files as .odt.