[Solved] Stop Windows from changing OO documents to Wordpad

[akvivit]

Every time I create and save a document in OO Writer, Windows 8 resaves it in Wordpad. I mean, when I open my document folder all documents are in Wordpad.
I want to keep all my documents in OO, how do I stop Windows from behaving like that? It's really pain in the bum, so urgent help would be appreciated.

[RoryOF]

Set your File Associations. See
http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/vi ... 74&t=12918 except select OpenOffice components instead of MS Office components.

[Bill]

Every time I create and save a document in OO Writer, Windows 8 resaves it in Wordpad. I mean, when I open my document folder all documents are in Wordpad.
I want to keep all my documents in OO, how do I stop Windows from behaving like that? It's really pain in the bum, so urgent help would be appreciated.

Documents aren't saved in Wordpad or in OOo. You need to change the default program for opening the documents. Right-click a document and select Properties. On the General tab, it should say Opens With: Wordpad. Click the Change button and select OpenOffice.org instead of Wordpad.

[akvivit]

thank you so much for the advises. Right clicking on the document and selecting open with solved the problem. Many thanks again

[donar]

hi i have a file with 11,000 addresses in it , i split it up into 11 with 1000 in each , the files have been automatically saved in wordpad and are in gibberish , how do i save as plain text etc thanks donar

[Bill]

hi i have a file with 11,000 addresses in it , i split it up into 11 with 1000 in each , the files have been automatically saved in wordpad and are in gibberish ,...

What does "saved in wordpad" mean? Did you use WordPad to save the document? WordPad is a basic word processing program that can save files in several different formats. WordPad is not a file format.

... how do i save as plain text etc :D thanks donar

Select the Text file type on the Save As dialog when you save the file.

[donar]

saved in wordpad means , when i split the file up into 11 new files and opened any of the 11 ,the text was unreadable , it was gibberish , donar

[Bill]

What is the format of the original file? How did you split it into 11 files? The user is responsible for saving files in the correct format, but from your statement, I have no way of knowing how the 11 files were saved or how they were opened.