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                  Issue #:|60003
                  Summary:|Cannot Save Embedded Spreadsheets as Text
                Component:|Word processor
                  Version:|OOo 2.0.1
                 Platform:|All
                      URL:|
               OS/Version:|Windows XP
                   Status:|UNCONFIRMED
        Status whiteboard:|
                 Keywords:|
               Resolution:|
               Issue type:|DEFECT
                 Priority:|P3
             Subcomponent:|save-export
              Assigned to:|mru
              Reported by:|pperson





------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan  3 12:05:34 -0800 
2006 -------
I have a document (and will have others) which contains embeded portions of a
spreadsheet. The document prints fine on graphics printers, even when the output
is directed to a file (ie, printed to a PostScript printer and read with
GhostScript).

I also need to save a copy in plain text format (suitable for reading by
Notepad). Unfortunately, OpenOffice Writer will not do this. Here are some of
the things I have tried:

Pasted As           Result in *.txt file
spreadsheet         omitted
text, rtf, html     each cell is shown on a separate line

This is, of course, ludicrous. There is no reason that a plain text file cannot
show a table -- as you can clearly see above. And note that it implies that even
"Paste Special Text" does not, in fact, paste the data as plain text into the 
file.

Even creating a printer with the Default/Character only driver failed -- your
pro  gram   in  sert  ed spaces into the text of the tables. And it did this
whether the printer object was set to RAW or to one of the other choices. This
is a very simple driver: it prints what it is sent and, as the test page shows,
it does this very well indeed. You just have to use a program that actually
sends the information to the printer properly.

I do not expect the plain text file to show any actual formatting (no bold or
italic characters, for example). But it /would/ be nice if OpenOffice could
actually export text properly.

Note: I did try searching the other issues, and the FAQs, and the listserves,
and, indeed, that search did suggest that "Paste Special" might be a solution
and so was not entirely fruitless, but it did not lead to a solution.

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