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Naomi Kramer wrote:
Hi Joan,
Sorry for leaving you hanging the other day. I got overwhelmed with work and didn't have much time to think about what your problem could be.
Hmmm... let me get this straight (or try to). You're doing the following steps -
- highlight text in a webpage
- copy text
- open a new OpenOffice.org document
- paste text into the new document
Is that right?
If so, try using CTRL-SHIFT-V when you paste the text into the document. This will bring up a dialog asking you what format to paste the text as - choose unformatted text. Your other option is to save the entire page as a .html file, and use a proper HTML editor. Part of your problem is probably that many webpages used fixed-width frames, rather than variable-width (expressed as a percentage of the available window width).
(be aware that you might be infringing copyright laws with what you're doing, depending on what you're doing and why)
The javascript problem comes down to the fact that you're copying webpages. It's not really a text-document feature, javascript is primarily used for webpages. And the actual script is often stored separately to the actual webpage.
Does that help?
- Naomi
Thank you for replying, Peter. I had given up having a response to the
problems I was finding in my
attempts to open OOo.org, so I just unsubscribed to the list. But most of
my former WORD docs are
opening up with this program now, and I'm expecting (hoping) to hear some
response to the several ERRO REPORTs
which Sun Micosys notfied me will be forthcoming.
Two things I asked for help or explanation were: When I copy from a web page, often the paste into a new OOo document comes in the form of what I believe are frames, and it exceeds the boundaries already in the WORD doc I had been pasting in before. I want to get rid of these, but don't know how, and I've been unsuccessful in trying to line up the borders with the previous text I had before.
The other thing, when I was trying to add some text from a web page and working with OOo I found a message in red at the top of the page that said: " You currently do not have JavaScript enabled in your web browser. The ABA website relies on JavaScript for display purposes. To fully experience the ABA site, please enable javascript."
How do I enable javascript, and is that done while I am in the OpenOffice.org in which I have been working?
I would really appreciate getting those two things resolved, and then I would be happy to use and try to improve the capabilities of OOo.
Thank you very much, Joan Arch
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