Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote:
Try Ctrl+A and then do a Crtl+X. See what that does.
Maybe that's less onerous than a simple delete.
The result is the same as Ctrl+A and then pressing the Delete key or
clicking on the Delete icon or whatever other ways there may be to
delete: everything except one of the title page graphics (the one
anchored to the page) is gone. (Aside: I had failed to notice earlier
that the OpenOffice.org 3 graphic got wiped when one uses Ctrl+A to
select, so that's yet another reason to not use Ctrl+A when starting a
new chapter for the user guides.)
After all, that's what Ctrl+A is supposed to do: select everything!
But we don't want to delete everything, just the explanatory text in
the body of the template.
The exception would be if someone wanted to use the template to start
a completely different document (not a user guide chapter) with all
new boilerplate and everything, just with all the styles intact.
--Jean
Have you tried placing the cursor at the beginning of the text and then
browse to the end of the text and press Shift at the very end of the
text in order to select everything in between? Then delete or Ctrl+X in
order to poof it? And save, of course.
That's pretty how we deleted material in huge, long master files
containing dozens of conditional-text editions of
embedded-microprocessor chip families in FrameMaker at
Motorola/Freescale Semiconductor. We just deleted most of the stuff we
didn't need nor want having around before we rewrote or edited for a
particular chip family.
Gary
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