My thanks to those who responded. Looks like I'll be keeping Word around a bit longer yet.
Twayne Twayne wrote: > Hi, > > OO.o 3.01 on XP Pro XP3, 1.5 Gig RAM, lots of drive space, malware > free to tthe best of my abilty, all updated and working well. > I know this has been asked before, but ... it's never really quite > been answered that I can find. So here's my take: > > I occasionally copy web pages to Writer. The results are seldom > satisfactory, resulting in huge open spaces with no text or images, > large, empty "images" that aren't in the original that I can tell or > see in the source, and generalized horizontal misalignment, too. > I can get a good copy by pasting into Word using either IE (7) or > FireFox (3) for my source. > > Here is a URL that for me demontrates the problem well and clearly: > http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?journalid=62D0427C8D642F8FE040AE0AB5E12F80&docid=336966 > > I don't care whether you have Word or not, I'm more interested in > whether your OO.o can represent the page as it looks on the screen or > not as Word does. And, if it does, which of your settings do you > think it might be that manage to display it to look close to the > original web page when using a copy/paste to get the page? > I've fiddled with the settings until I'm blue in the face but no > luck. > > In Word, I get a neatly laid out 5 page document. But in Writer I > get a 6 page document with a lot of missing data where fields etc. > don't opt to the next page but just go hidden, only partially > showing, in several places too. If anyone is curious, I can stage > the two pasted documents on my web site but I think you'll be able to > see it yourelf using the example page I provided above. Offhand it > looks like problems with <div> </div> tags, but I'm not a guru with > such things. > Thanks in advance if you have any info on what I have set wrong. > > Twayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
