Re: Total disaster

2021-03-15 Thread Robin Lord
If direct formatting is to blame it may be useful to cut and paste the whole document onto a new document using cntr/shift /alt /v which pastes it without any formatting, then create required styles as necessary and apply as necessary On Mon, 15 Mar 2021, at 16:39, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Mon

Re: Total disaster

2021-03-15 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:01:59 + Andrew Lunn wrote: > I have spent many years on writing manuscripts with a view to attracting a > publishing deal. I had been using Open Office. I recently upgraded my pc > and decided to continue using Open Office so downloaded the new free > install. I had

Total disaster

2021-03-15 Thread Andrew Lunn
I have spent many years on writing manuscripts with a view to attracting a publishing deal. I had been using Open Office. I recently upgraded my pc and decided to continue using Open Office so downloaded the new free install. I had already copied over my manuscripts from the old pc to the new on

Re: Documents not found

2021-03-15 Thread David Robley
It is extremely unlikely that you files are 'gone'. Most likely the unexpected shutdown cleared your list of recently used files: if you were prompted for your name when you restarted OpenOffice, this is certainly the case. Use the Finder to locate your files and open them; after you open and