On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 12:50:26 +0100 christopher spencer <galaxycosmo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All, > > Across the globe. Please are you able to help me. > > I have been typing a book on Open Office writer. Twice without any warning > the text disappeared totally. > > Twice I have re typed and after chapter 12 it vanished again. > > I have searched my list of Documents and found the Final Master label. > > I tapped into it and it lead me to Erased & Lost. files. > > I have found what I think to be the TWO books. > The code reads .>Notepad looks like this. a#s#m# etc > >Open Office looks like this. #1#8#T#1 etc > > Please tell me are these Corrupted files beyond salvaging. > > Thank you for any help that you can offer, and i mean THANK you. > sincerely > Christopher That depends on the format in which you were working: if you were working in .doc format, simply change the file extensions of the found files to .doc and see if they open with any degree of correctness. If you were working in .odt format, I think you are out of luck. Also, when writing, are you pressing Enter or Shift Enter to mark the end of a paragraph? Enter is the correct method; Shift Enter displays correctly onscreen, but internally OpenOffice interprets it as a continuation character, so it treats the text as one large paragraph. For reasons programmers will understand, OpenOffice allows only 64K characters in a paragraph and starts to act funny if that is the case. So use Enter. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
