Won’t cost a damn thing to try, will it? > On Mar 26, 2017, at 12:16 PM, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote: > > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org >
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