Cannot access old word docs through Catalina?

I upgraded mac air to Catalina yesterday, having downloaded LibreOffice a number of months ago. Before upgrading, I had option to open old word docs through Libreoffice. I can open with Textedit but I am not given Libreoffice option now! Libreoffice is 64bit. Other docs etc created with Libreoffice work well with upgrade. Do I have any options please?

Hello

please read this (or any of the plenty results on an internet search for How to Assign a File Type to an Application in Mac OS)

Note You always could use File -> Open and navigate to your document.

Hope that helps.

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