Saving and opening documents as an RTF

I recently wrote a paper for class on my macbook and saved it as an RTF so I could open it on a PC. I forgot to save it as an ODT first and now canʻt open it on a mac or pc. Is there a way to recover the document? My paper is due tomorrow and I canʻt even open it.

An RTF is a plain text document with codes. You should be able to open it with a simple text editor. Have you tried opening it with Wordpad under Windows?

I assume you wrote the rtf-file on your Mac using LibO.

Beside opening and RTF file as described above, I don’t understand that you can’t open an RFT file with Writer.

I just made a test with writer.

  • Created a new files.
  • Added test in various formats.
  • Saved as rtf-file.
  • Double-click icon.
  • File opened all formats remained.

I am using 3.5.7 on PC

Thank you both, I did use LibreOffice. I created the document on my Macbook and only saved it as an rtf. When I tried to open it later on my Macbook and also on a PC, I couldn’t. I tried to open it using LibreOffice, MS Word, text edit, Adobe, and Pages. Nothing worked. I was hoping maybe LibreOffice auto saves files under temporary documents but I couldn’t find anything. I ended up re-writing the entire paper :frowning:

Hi @ttkos, Sorry to hear that your RTF file was unable to be opened.

If you think that there’s a problem in the RTF export of LibreOffice, please file a bug and provide a list of steps that can reproduce your problem. If you can include your RTF file (that doesn’t open), that could also help us track down the problem.

I have this problem with Mac Pro 8-Core (OS X 10.8) with LibreOffice Writer 4.1. I can save a document in RTF, but when I try to open the file I have just created, LibreOffice tells me it can’t open that file. Definitely a bug.