OK so my final paper is due in 3 days but all my meticulous notes are now gone! When I went to open up the file, ASCII Filter Option popped up asking me to choose the properties (Character set, default font,language, paragraph break). It seems no matter what character set I choose my notes are always represented by pages of #'s(the symbol). Unfortunately no auto backup of the file exists since I never even knew it could be enabled until things were too late. The file is an ODT and I'm using the latest Open Office running on windows Vista.
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