A good starting point for learning how to format in OpenOffice is
Writer for students (several languages)

Much better than most video tutorials.

On the "Full Editor" screen (button at bottom of Quick Reply screen) or the "Post Reply" screen, below the Submit button, you will see a tab "Attachments". Click on that and you will be able to upload your damaged file.

Or in Writer, make a Table of Contents from the header of each recipe, and use that for quick access to the recipe.

Please upload your damaged file either to the Forum or to a file sharing site (please post the URL), so that it can be examined and hopefully repaired.

Note: such error usually occurs when a Writer file has been edited also in MS Word and a comment extended over a text range deleted.

Make a PDF from the recipe file, then show it one page at a time in a PDF Reader. Or write (or Cut and Paste) your recipes into Impress. Or put your recipes in a database, and display them using a suitable form.

Three are ways of doing this - no need to author a new way.

John_Ha analysed this problem; from memory, his finding was that OpenOffice does not issue a "do not shut down just yet" warning to the operating system, which would prevent it shutting down until all was OK. But it must be said, the needed delay is minuscule - a matter of seconds; the pro...

OpenOffice files are complex, being composed of a number of items. They take some time to build, and if the computer is powered off too quickly such as by shutting a laptop lid, or crashes, there may not be sufficient time for the computer to build the output file or for it to be flushed from the so...

I agree with floris v: the file is badly corrupted. Best to use a utility such as Recuva or PhotoRec to see if a hidden temporary file can be recovered. Do this as soon as possible.

Once or twice on Forum we have come across content.xml being merely style definitions. I think it is probably caused by over-hasty close down of the computer, before the file has been fully generated and written to disk. An outside chance: there might be a deleted work file on the disk drive. Worth ...

You will get more explicit help by checking postings on an ubuntu support forum, such as
https://ubuntuforums.org

You should post the original damaged document, not a version after any attempt to repair it.

I don't use Windows, but I find that within OpenOffice /File /Recent Documents gives speedy access to the most recent documents edited. The number of documents remembered can be extended by HistoryMaster or a similar extension. Another approach for something like a Journal, which one accesses daily,...

Possibly Fn right arrow.

Select the cell, then put an = sign before the formula when it shows in the Formula bar. You may beed to turn on /;View /Formula Bar to see the Formula bar.You may (I'm not not certain) need to bracket the complete expression, viz.:
=(sin(90) +cos(30)/3)

Try this posting for suggestions:
viewtopic.php?p=545808#p545808

I think we need /File /New /Read_User's_mind.

This is the anniversary of the greatest April Fool's day joke: the 1957 BBC News program that reported on the early spring bringing the south Swiss spaghetti crop ripe: worth seeing the video if you have never seen it. And the UK population swallowed the story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkx...

The nightly server seems intermittent - for some reason it can stall, and eventually, when pushed, someone kick-starts it again.

There is at present no "nightly" version of this. The commit was 29 March, and last nightly is 22 March.

It may be that a hard disk (i.e., a real disk drive, not an SSD) will have deleted copies of the required file. As soon as may be use a recovery app such as PhotoRec or Recuva to search for deleted files, which will show up under arbitrary names and file types; you will need to examine these to deci...

It can also happen that a document is not in OpenOffice's native format, hence must be translated to that on opening. Some translation, which occur in the background on opening, can be fast, but the process of editing can increase the size/complexity of a document so that on a new opening of it, for...

Your file is most probably damaged by possibly an error in transmission to/from the OneDrive. If you have a local hard disk copy, try that instead of he OneDrive version.

In A13 enter =A11+A12

If you wish A12 to be increased by the value in A11, this is equivalent to A12 equaling A11+A12 - a circular reference, which in spreadsheets is not allowed

An un- and re-install of OpenOffice does not remove the OpenOffice User Profile, which is where a spellcheck problem resides. It is necessary, as the links from LastUnicorn tell, to remove or rename the OpenOffice User Profile, and an un-/re-install of OpenOffice is then rarely necessary. Once the O...

@floris v: thank you for the reminder in the above post that the keys are Shift Enter, not Ctrl Enter. I have corrected my posts accordingly.

Let my error be a warning to others against doing too many things simultaneously!

In computing a k is taken to be 1024 characters (think of powers of 2).

Exactly so: I have several documents that are 2,000-3,000 pages. More than that may start to run slow. If the Ctrl Enter Shift Enter characters are coming from imported documents, then you should use /Edit /Paste special : unformatted text. If you have existing documents using Ctrl Enter Shift Enter...

When you get to a paragraph end, do you press Enter, or Ctrl Enter Shift Enter? In OpenOffice one rarely needs to use Ctrl Enter Shift Enter [Read: do not use Ctrl Enter Shift Enter until you know exactly what you are doing]. Use of Ctrl Enter Shift Enter in place of Enter to mark end of paragraphs ...

The Word Count status bar controller at

https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/pr ... controller

writes a word count for a Writer document to the Status Bar. Careful examination of its code may be of assistance.

I tried Hagar's 2x suggestion, which is accessed in Xubuntu by Settings : Appearance : Settings tab : Window Scaling. It left my system in a confused state and I was not able to use the same settings to revert to 1x and needed to reboot with a ctrl key sequence (Alt F4). A reboot is what the Help su...

It might help to adjust your screen resolution when editing to (say) 1280 x 1024. I sometimes have to do this when using a 12" screen (1920 x 1080) laptop.

My preference is make or edit presentations etc on my desktop with multiple screens.

I must investigate Hagar;s 2x suggestion.