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I can't get swriter to save properly. I have never had a problem before. All of a sudden when I try to save, it saves the file as a generic file. I usually save my documents as office documents so I can use them at school. This happens no matter what type of file I try to save the document as.

By generic I mean just a general file. The file properties labels it as a "file" instead of an "opendocument" or "worddocument." When I double click on the file, I have to choose a program to open it with. There is no option to "open with" when I right-click like there should be.

I have tried to both repair and re-install openoffice, neither works.

please help

p.s.
I just found that I can save properly by manually typing in the file extension, but it will not do it automatically as it should.

ok, that was simple, lol, thanx

Have you read the Forum Survival Guide?
What OS and OOo version are you using?

When you do File > Save, click the checkbox "Automatic file extension" = ON (checked) down at the bottom of the file dialog window.

The same problem suddenly happened to me yesterday and thanks to the advice given, it is fixed.
Thank you very much.