recovering editing in odt formatted document
I was sent a document in odt format. When I made editing to the document through track changes, the changes I made are not visible as tracks when I saved and closed the file. I need to view the changes again because I need to reflect these changes in another
similar document. I tried enabling track changes, view all markups, view markups by all reviews, etc, but non of that seem to work. The only changes that I am able to see are comments, but not the insertion, deletion, formatting, etc
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Tracked changes are not supported when you save your file in the *.odt format. See
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/differences-between-the-opendocument-text-odt-format-and-the-word-docx-format-d9d51a92-56d1-4794-8b68-5efb57aebfdc?NS=WINWORD&Version=16&SysLcid=1033&UiLcid=1033&AppVer=ZWD160&HelpId=64606&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US.
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Last updated April 14, 2025 Views 3,222 Applies to: