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Zip files

I cannot open zip file .odt (LibreOffice) in email on iPhone 10xr. Have tried some free apps to no avail. Still gibberish.

iPhone XR, iOS 13

Posted on Feb 17, 2020 7:45 PM

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MBP_Drew

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Feb 17, 2020 7:55 PM in response to Bamieh

.ODT files are simply LibreOffice or OpenOffice file types. (They aren't "zip files", just FYI). The iPhone won't be able to recognize them natively. Meaning it's not built into the functionality of the iPhone.

According to this document, Microsoft Office on the iPhone can read .ODT files. Perhaps try that.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/View-OpenDocument-Format-ODF-files-in-Office-for-iPad-and-Office-for-iPhone-150b8e56-051a-47de-bf58-1bbf828893fa

Good luck! 👍

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ChrisJ4203

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Feb 17, 2020 7:56 PM in response to Bamieh

Open the email on a computer to deal with the zip file. I am not aware of a way to open a zip file on the iPhone. And I'm not so sure that the iPhone has a viewer that will open an .odt file, that is not a standard extension. You may have to try to open that on a computer and save it as another file type, such as .doc, or .rtf, or .txt.

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Bamieh Author

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Feb 17, 2020 8:20 PM in response to MBP_Drew

The site you gave me says to choose the “open” option as some apps do. But it is not offered. Only preview. 5 pages are gibberish and the last is an actual document I need. I tried to send screenshot of what I am looking at but will not copy it in.

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