Dear Rory, Thank you. A BIG thank you. The most helpful information I have received. I am really happy to have so much help. Rory you have educated me . Thank you. sincerely Christopher
On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 at 17:24, Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: > 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> >
