On 17:38 Jan 25, 2005 Doug Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Crystle Numan wrote:
> >  On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 00:15 -0700, Doug Thompson wrote:
> >
> >> I have a web site I'm converting from 40+ pages of hard coded html
> >> tables to a few templates and a mysql database.
> >>
> >> The data are presented in tables and everything copies and pastes
> >> nicely into individual cells of a Calc spreadsheet.
> >>
> >> My problem is that many of the elements being copied from the web
> >> site are html links.  When I paste those into Calc, they remain
> >> links and only links.  I want to convert them to plain text but
> >> nothing I have tried in OOo will do it.

When I paste into OOo I also get links, but I ignore that and save the data
to a CSV file. That gives me the plain text. I can either edit the data in
the text file or paste it back into Calc. The links are then treated as
plain text.


--Tony


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