I wasn't able to reproduce that issue, for me the target just doesn't show
up. you can lightly redefine the behavior of the export functions like this:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(cl-letf (((symbol-function 'org-odt-target) (lambda (target contents info)
(org-element-property :value target
Hello all,
I need to share a document I have been writing in org which I would
normally export to PDF (via LaTeX, and which works very well). To
share, I am exporting to ODT. In general, the export is good enough for
my collaborator to make changes to the text (with track changes enabled
in what