[Solved] OpenOffice figures disappear

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cvandy2
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[Solved] OpenOffice figures disappear

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My OS is Xp. I'm creating a document that contains many graphs created in R. When I opened my document today, the graphs were gone and instead there were blank boxes containing the paths and names of the graphs.
How do I get my graphs back and how do I prevent this in the future?
Thanks.Solved
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kingfisher
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Re: OpenOffice figures disappear

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It seems the graphs were inserted as links. To prevent them disappearing, I believe you can use the menu Edit >Links to break the links after inserting the graphs.
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Hagar Delest
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Re: OpenOffice figures disappear

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Check that in Tools>Options>OOo Writer>View, Display section, the Graphics and objects entry is checked.
Do you save in the native .odt format or still .doc? Using a closed format as .doc is very dangerous because once it's corrupted, few changes to recover anything at all.

BTW, please read the Survival Guide for the forum. NO multiposting please. I move this thread in the Writer forum and delete the other one.
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