Hello, I’ve searched for answers in the forum, but I don’t see my question, so forgive me if this has already been asked. When I bring up the LO writer and put text in it, it saves it as an .odt document which is what I expect. I go back into that same document, but this time I save that file as a Word document with the .docx extension. But when I open that same .docx file back up it comes up as “Untitled 1”. NOT the name that I saved it with. So, try it again. I open the same file, save it as a Word document but it still comes up as “Untitled 1”. The bottom line is that I can’t save a file as a word document file without it coming up as “Untitled 1”. Has anyone ever come across something like this or am I seeing things? Does this make any sense at all?
This happen with templates. Find the file in the file manager, secondary click on the file, and choose Open (not New).
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Please double-check that it is DOCX, not DOTX.
Can you upload one of the problematic documents here?
When I save the file, I save it with “Word 2007-365 Template”. I open that file and I do see it saved with a .dotx extension. In the past when I save my document with the “Word 2007-365 Template” , it saves it with the .docx extension. Now it is saving it with the .dotx. And when I open that file again, it comes up with the “Untitled 1”. Why they are coming up with the .dotx extension, I don’t know. I am not sure how this got changed or what I did to change it. I checked my other files that I saved with “Word 2007-365 Template” and they ALL have the .docx extension. And they come up with the name that I give them and NOT as “Untitled 1”.
So could this be the reason that those files are coming up with “Untitled 1”, after I save them with the “Word 2007-365 Template”, instead of the actual name that I give it?
So how do I get this back to where I can open up my saved file with the name that I gave it, instead of it opening as “Unttled 1”? Believe it or not this has never happen to me in the past. When I created a document and saved it and then re-open it, it would open up with the name that I gave it NOT with “Untitled 1”. Something must have change without my awareness. IF the .dotx is the cause, how do I fix it? IF the .dotx is not the cause, then how do I get this back to normal?
In the past you saved it as Word 2007-365 (.docx), not template.
A template is a model document that you use to create other documents so it doesn’t get altered each time you use it, hence “Untitled 1” new document. See Creating a Template and also Chapter 10 Templates of the Writer guide downloadable from Documentation
Unless you really need to use Microsoft format, you should be saving in native .odt format (ISO standard).
Usually renaming your file extension from .dotx to .docx will solve the issue. Thanks @mikekaganski for your comment.
EDIT: So, find the file in the file manager, secondary click on the file, and choose Open (not New). Then choose menu File- Save As… selecting a document type, not a template type. /EDIT
LibreOffice also uses template extensions: instead of .od? it uses .ot? (where d is for document, t for template, and the ? place is t for Writer, s for Calc, p for Impress, g for Draw).
Tested with LibreOffice 7.0.6.2 (x64); OS: Windows 10.0.
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Thank you all for your help in solving this puzzle. My documents are back to normalcy finally. Sorry to be a cause in the rump. Again, thanks for all the assistance with this headache. It’s finally over!!
Usually renaming your file extension from .dotx to .docx will solve the issue.
No. This will “workaround” some most visible part of the problem (creation of new document from the template), but will keep some other pieces (giving unexpected results to user when they don’t expect that: the save time; the behavior of fixed date fields…) - template file formats have internal differences, forcing LibreOffice to treat them differently anyway.