My spreadsheet opens as a Writer document

[boivin42]

went to open my spreadsheet and it opened up as an "Open Office Writer" document and all the characters were # symbols. Somehow my spreadsheet converted to Office document. After I open the spreadsheet a window appears titled "ASCII Filter Options" with drop-down boxes for "Character Set", "Default fonts", "Language" and 3 choices for "Paragraph break". For the Character Set "Western Europe (DOS/OS2-437...) is already hi-lighted. Can anyone help me get my spreadsheet back? I have no idea how this happened. Last time I opened it was normal and looked like it always does.

Thanks

[thomasjk]

If all you see is ######### then you document is corrupted beyond repair. See https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/v ... 74&t=84056 for help in trying to find a backup copy recover your data.

[John_Ha]

Also see [Tutorial] How to find and un-delete Writer temporary files for

a) detailed instructions on how to recover your file as it was when you last opened or saved it, or as it was when it was last saved with AutoRecovery;

b) how to find previous versions of the file in the folder it is located in, but which have since been deleted;

c) how to un-delete the temporary files Writer wrote while you were editing the file, and then deleted. This will recover your file as it was when you last opened or you last saved it and is probably your best hope.