Roy, There is not enough information to be able to reproduce your difficulty and identify the particular problem.
Without knowing more, here are a number of things to try, It may be that a Zoom or Scroll function moved your view so that the text was not visible. Open the document and look at the lower right corner of the OpenOffice Text window where there is a slider and a % value. Move the slider to 100% and see if that helps. You can also use Ctrl-Home to get to the top of the first page and see if the text is there. Also check the lower left corner where it says Page m/n. That should tell you how much material the document may have, assuming you typed more than a page's worth. If you don't find your text that way, try going to the View menu and click the "Hidden Paragraphs" option. And one more trick. Positioned at the top of the document, click the "Edit > Select all" and see whether there is any portion of the document that is selected. If you see text in the selection area, this may reveal that a font color has been changed. You can use the font color button in the bar that has font and style information to change the font to a visible color different than the background color of the document. If this does not recover what appears to be suddenly-missing text, the best workaround is to save your document regularly. When something like this happens on a document that has previously been saved (so it has a file name), do not close or save the document. Instead, use the File > Save As ... menu option to save the file under a new name so that you don't lose previously saved material while you see if you can recover your latest work. Also, if the material is not private, you can create a bug report and add the failed document as an attachment. That way, someone who understand the file format can examine your document to see if there is any way to tell what happened. Let us know if you have captured a document that you want to do that with. - Dennis PS: Please reply to users@openoffice.apache.org so other users can follow and add their suggestions. If you reply directly to me, I will assume you are giving me permission to post your message to this list as I see fit. > -----Original Message----- > From: Roy Noble [mailto:noble...@talktalk.net] > Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 07:49 > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Open Office 4 text problem > > I was typing up a document on your word program and suddenly without my > realization of deleting the text, it all disappeared. This has happened > to me maybe 3 times over a period of time. > I am not able to undo this change and get my text back. Please send me a > possible solution to this problem that keeps occurring. > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > http://www.avast.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
