[Solved] Default template

[tenorlove]

Earlier this week, I had to do the annual re-register the product, and waste a day trying to reset my custom settings. Well now, when I open a NEW document, there is already text present, instead of a blank document like I want. How do I fix this?

[Villeroy]

Earlier this week, I had to do the annual re-register the product,

You are using Microsoft Office, aren't you? This forum is about OpenOffice which is a free and open source office suite which can be downloaded and used without any registration. This forum is unrelated to Microsoft Office.

[tenorlove]

No, I use Open Office.

And I managed to fix the problem by myself.

[tenorlove]

Once a year, on July 1, Open Office requires me to put in my name, and goes back to the settings it had when it was originally installed: default fonts, default keyboard shortcuts, etc. And whatever the last document was that I used, goes to hashtags and is lost. Fortunately, I back up to the cloud every day.

[Hagar Delest]

There is something wrong then. AOO cannot do that. Are you sure you had installed the official version downloaded from the SourceForge site (link bottom right of this page)?
Any other application affected on your machine? Could be a system wide trouble.

[jrkrideau]

As Hagar says, 'AOO cannot do that'. I have been running AOO for 10--12 years and I have never seen anything like this.

Either you have some rogue version of AOO or there is something seriously wrong with your system. Do you have to annually register any other software on the machine that might somehow be affecting AOO?

The bizarre thing is that you are resetting elements of the profile. It usually is unaffected by AOO deletions or updates.

You might want to run some anti-virus and anti-malware software to see what's there.
Are you sure that you have installed the official verision of AOO? The link to the official download site is at the bottom right of the screen on the forum.

[tenorlove]

I've had AOO on my computer for 4 years. This is like the 3rd time the settings went back to default -- TNR12 font, etc. It's the first time it destroyed a document. No other software has done this. I run antivirus weekly (auto-tasked). I checked the logs, and found nothing. It's working now, as I want it to. I'm religious about backing up files. And I plan to get another computer before tax season starts back up. Thanks everyone, for all your help and advice. Over and out.

[Bill]

I've had OOo/AOO on my computers for over 10 years. and it's never happened. Since you had a document destroyed, I suspect that you had a power outage that also destroyed your user profile. It's not something that makes any sense for OOo/AOO to do deliberately. You stated that you're using "Open Office", but "Open Office" is not a product name, it's a generic term that doesn't tell anyone what product is actually installed.

[Zizi64]

There are some tricky, fake web pages that propose you to download
"Open Office 2017", "Open Office 2018" (etc...) versions.

They are NOT Apache OpenOffice softwares, and they are not LibreOffice softwares. The true AOO and LO versions are not numbered by the years.

The official download pages:
https://www.openoffice.org/download/
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/