At 10:52 26/03/2017 -0500, James Plante wrote:
Rory is usually right about things like this, ...
Perhaps more often than you think.
... but there's one trick you might try. Find that ODT file in Windows Explorer (or the Finder if on a Mac). Change the file extension from .odt to .zip, and unzip the file. Open the one named "content". It will have all the text in it, but none of the formatting.
Hold on: it has the text but also the formatting - as an XML file. You'd need appropriate software (or a lot of effort) to strip out just the text.
In any case, when - as here - the user sees nothing but hash marks, the operating system is delivering an empty sector or sectors in place of the document. This will not be a valid zip file and cannot be unzipped.
Brian Barker
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