Open Office - Can't Open From Docs - Help Please!

[moggie 939]

On my old laptop I had Word and when I saved a doc it showed in My Docs as Word and I clicked on it to open and print it but.........

My new laptop has not got Word (Currys wanted me to by Office with Word for a stupid sum!) so i downloaded Open Office Apache. no problem writing a letter with it but when I saved it My Docs it appeared with an Apache icon and odt under it?

When I clicked to open it it would not open at all so I can't print it out!

What am I doing wrong please? People on this site have said that it is just as good as Word for me as I rarely write anything.

Thanks

[barry1010]

In future save your docs as .doc not .odt It is easy to do in OpenOffice.
When you click on the document in My Docs does Open Office automatically open? If not, right click on the document and choose 'open with' then 'Open Office'.

[jennyjoan]

Or download abiword

[barry1010]

Abiword won't open an .odt document

[ichkeria]

As I’ve said before, free for reason :-)

You should really save in .docx format

[ichkeria]

Or rtf

[moggie 939]

Thanks Barry1010 that worked!
But do I have to change 'open with' on each doc or can I set it for 'open office not odt in Apache?
Moggie

[barry1010]

If you are using Windows 10 right click on the Windows icon bottom left of screen and click 'settings'. Click 'apps'. Then click 'set default by app' then click on Open Office.

[moggie 939]

Thanks Barry sorted now!
Moggie