[Solved] Documents have disappeared

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feralgyrl
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[Solved] Documents have disappeared

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I went to open a document that I saved as a PDF, and after being asked to select ASCII filter options, find that

%PDF-1.4
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2 0 obj
<</Length 3 0 R/Filter/FlateDecode>>
stream
xϵYMo#7

is all that remains of my report on hiatal hernias. This is what happens with every other document that I saved while taking an anatomy class. Can anyone provide any insight?
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Apache Open Office 1.4.5 on Windows 10
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You should not be using OpenOffice to open PDF documents. Use a dedicated PDF reader, such as Adobe Reader or whatever other application is installed on Windows 10 as the default PDF reading application. If you must (not recommended) use OO as a PDF reader, you need to install the PDF import extension at PDF Import for Apache OpenOffice
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feralgyrl
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Re: documents have disappeared

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Thank you. That helped resolve my issue.
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