To expand on what Hagar has said: in OpenOffice, a Table is _always_ followed by an empty paragraph; this one can see by turning on /View /Non printing characters. One cannot remove that empty paragraph, but one can select it and reduce it to 2 pts, which is the minimum. One may be able to reduce th...

Hmmmm , I guess I can do a check , do you have a recommendation of a Deep Scan Anti-virus software that isn't like Norton where it wants to take over your whole system , and isn't full of bloatware or a "buy this if you want to actually remove a virus" thing ?? Trendmicro use a remote vir...

A small sample file would aid solution of the problem.

Thank you for that info , I was unaware that was a option , I still have to figure out what is causing all my SATA ports to die on 4 different motherboards (all are ASUS boards however) , so not sure if its my power supply or the boards themselves *different models but same brand* , but the issue i...

"Section break" is a MS Word feature. If I recall correctly, section breaks are open-ended. Writer uses sections which have a set start and end. Writer Sections continue to expand to accommodate their content. One needs to terminate the entry of content and exit the Section. This one does...

Try the attached.

If this is an Adobe Type 1 font, I suggest looking for a ttf format version, or similar format of a close equivalent, and installing that.

It may not be good to split the book at Total_Pages / 2; better to find a logical splitting point near that value, and there split into two volumes, adding a suitable title or volume page(s), and perhaps a table of contents, to the second half.

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.