hi this is my first post and I'm not sure if this is even the right section. Here it goes: I wrote my PHD thesis outline using OpenOffice 2.2 and saved it to my USB key. God love me, but I cannot open the document either on my LAPTOP (sadly running on Windows Vista) nor on my friend's iBook G4.  When opening through OpenOffice, the ERROR message says: cannot read, document is not in WinWord97 and when I TRY with AppleWorks 6 it says that Translator could not read or translate the document. When we try to open the document on the windows computer all we see are strange hieroglyphics where there should be text.

What can we do? Is the text lost forever? What may have happened? Any advice is welcome

So you can't open it with Open OFFICE on the same computer?

What if you try copying the file back to the computer it was originally made on.Hi Mr Dioxide   we tried that but it didn't workexcuse me, mr. dudeoxideIt is possible the file didn't save properly. Did you remove the USB safely?Bluehousewren: What file format did you save your OOo document in - .odt or .doc?