Open OO and go to Tools>Options Expand "Load/Save" and click on "General" You will see a list on the right for "Default File Format" Pick "OpenDocument Text" for "Text Document", etc... Then try and see if it is fixed - if not, there is something strange going on...:) <div>On 4/16/07, drew einhorn <<a href="mailto:drew.einhorn@gmail.com"> drew.einhorn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Somehow the OpenOffice on my daughter's Edubuntu 6.06 LTS system has gotten strange and is saving her files as .zip files How do we get it back to normal behavior? -- Drew Einhorn -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Shawn McCuan <a href="mailto:smccuan@gmail.com">smccuan@gmail.com</a> Support a national vote in the US! <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact</a> <a href="http://www.nationalpopularvote.com">http://www.nationalpopularvote.com</a>