Today we moved my wife’s dad from a dying old computer running Windows Vista to a snappy new 17" HP laptop running Windows 10. On the old machine he was running an old version of Open Office. His docs are an assortment of old Excel and OO spreadsheet files. I installed a current version of LibreOffice on the new machine. LibreOffice recognizes the files and opens them, but it assigns every file the name of “Untitled 1”. Same with the save dialog. I can’t find an answer here, sorry. How do we get the files to open and save using the correct pre-designated names?
Please provide the extensions of the filenames - this sounds like LibreOffice treats every file as an template, which in turn would mean that old OO calc filenames end with .ots and old Excel files are having an extension of either .xltx or .xlt.
If these files previously have been templates, then it is intended behavior that there is an initial name like `Untitled 1` until you save it to some distinct location (directory) under a distinct name.
Most of them are .xlr
These seem to be old works files. see this;
.xlr are neither native Excel files (Excel could open 'em) nor OpenOffice files (OpenOffice could not write that format) but Microsoft Works files. Got no such file, hence can’t try to find a way to open such file with its original filename. If you could upload an anonymized file, may be somebody could have a look.
Yep, it was the xlr extension. Renamed all the old xlr files to xls and the problem is solved.
Thanks much.