Thankyou so much for your help! Your suggestion worked! I created a gmail account and popped my work into Google drive, and it appeared in readable format again. Thankyou so much for your advice, you basically saved my honours dissertation!
Best regards, Becky Sent from my iPhone > On 25 Mar 2015, at 23:11, Alan B <abo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Rebecca Erskine < > ra.ersk...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > >> >> Please help! All my Apache open office documents seem to be corrupted! I >> have a honours dissertation and essays to hand in by Friday, and I am in a >> panic! When I go into my laptop (Mac book air) and click on the previously >> saved documents, and open them, they are displayed as a mess, all the words >> are meshed together and black, it is unreadable. When I even try to open a >> new open office it won't let me type! > > Rebecca I hope this suggestion might help... > > If you have a GMail account (if you don't, make one, they're free) open up > Google Drive and drop one of your documents from your computer onto the > GoogleDrive folder. > > I know it works to open simple documents. Don't know how complex your > dissertation is, e.g. headers, footers, footnotes, tables, etc, and don't > know how well this technique works on complex documents. > > Anyway give it a try. If your documents open then the problem you're having > is on your Mac for sure but at least this would let you open your documents. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
