Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Extracting content out of table format received in an email

2022-02-26 Thread charles meyer
Hi All, I've tried forwarding the newsletter but it doens remove the "tables" but next time I'll try to recall using Calc. I'm afraid that will remove the graphics. I;ve taken to taking screenshots and pasting it but that can be labor-intensive with long newsletters. It's a lot like extracting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Extracting content out of table format received in an email

2022-02-23 Thread Steve Edmonds
What I have done before is to click Forward for that email which then enables me to edit the format of the newsletter (delete rows I don't want, etc.) and then send it to myself and copy/paste the simplified table. Another thing I have done is to copy and paste into Calc and adjust the structu

Re: [libreoffice-users] Extracting content out of table format received in an email

2022-02-23 Thread Ian Bertram
Try Converting the table to text. It usually works for me. On Wed, 23 Feb 2022, 02:15 charles meyer, wrote: > Do you ever receive emails of mini-newsletters where you want to save some > of the content in the email but if you copy/paste it into Libre Writer it’s > all in a table? > > > > Looks g

[libreoffice-users] Extracting content out of table format received in an email

2022-02-23 Thread Mike Flannigan
Try pasting into a text file and then copying from the text file.  Sometimes that works for me. There are more elegant ways of doing the same thing, but it usually involves writing a Perl script. Mike On 2/23/22 02:09, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Do you ever receive emails of m

[libreoffice-users] Extracting content out of table format received in an email

2022-02-22 Thread charles meyer
Do you ever receive emails of mini-newsletters where you want to save some of the content in the email but if you copy/paste it into Libre Writer it’s all in a table? Looks good but now you wish to delete 1/3 of the content except you have to delete rows, etc. So time consuming. I’ve tried