----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Barker" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 2:28 AM Subject: Re: [users] OOo Writer Cut & Paste Problem
> At 18:59 05/03/2009 -0500, Nobody Noname wrote: > >Something I've taken for granted in Microsoft Office (and virtually > >every other word processor/text editor) is that if I cut or copy > >text from some place and paste it to the program, the whole thing is > >copied over. With OOo Writer it seems that only the first page is > >pasted in and the rest of it? Who knows. I regard this a bug, and > >believe me - it bugs me. > > Millions of otherwise happy OpenOffice users would be complaining if > this were generally true, of course. Unless nobody else has tried my crazy idea (copying text from a web page!) > A simple way to check what is happening is to use Edit | Paste > Special... (or right-click | Paste Special... or Ctrl+Shift+V) > instead of ordinary Paste. This will paste the textual material > without any accompanying structure and you will be able to see and > confirm exactly what is being pasted. Once you have confirmed that > all the material is there, you can choose between: > o reformatting it afresh as you require, or > o going back to your ordinary Paste and rescuing the hidden text by > modifying the pasted structure. You should be able to select and > copy whatever is in the frame and then paste it back outside the frame. > > I trust this helps. This is, of course, something that I never considered, even if frames are not apparent in the source material. Since I'm pretty well guessing at this point, it's worth a try. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
