I have recently purchased a new laptop with Windows8 occassioned by my spilling a drink on my old laptop.  I have down loaded Open Office to my new computer and have copied my text files from my old computer's hard drive. My old computer was a PC using Windows7 on which I used Open Office as my word processor.   I never had any problem opening, reading, amending or closing  Open Office text files usig Windows7 whether the files were originally created in Opeen Office, or coverted from WordPerfect that I once used several years ago. Using Open Office with Windows8, I am unabe to open and read Open Office text files copied from my old computer.  When I open a file, I get a table entitled  "ASCll Filter Options" ,with the following: Character set- Western Europe ( ASCll/US), Font- Times New Roman, Language- English (USA). Upon clicking the button "OK" the resulting screen has one or several lines of characters that have no meaning to me.  I might add that My Grandson downloaded a program entitled LibreOffice 4. 0, that will open the Open Office files.  What must I do to open the text files using Open Office with Windows8.