----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Barker" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 12:25 AM Subject: Re: [users] OOo Writer Cut & Paste Problem
> At 13:34 06/03/2009 -0500, Nobody Noname wrote: > >From: "Brian Barker" <[email protected]> > >Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 2:28 AM > >>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!) > > Sorry, but that was precisely my point: you simply cannot believe, I > suggest, that millions of OpenOffice users haven't needed to do > exactly this - and often. Nothing crazy about it! > > And yes: copying from a very structured document such as a web site > is precisely where you will see just the sort of problem you > describe. And if - as you say here - it is the *text* of the web > page (rather than its structure) you need to paste, then Paste > Special is certainly the way to go. Um. I don't QUITE get that. Paste "special"? Because it was plain text I was after, what is the "special" part about it? Indeed I haven't TRIED this method yet, I will have to in the near future. Then again I would ask if it can be assigned to the tried and true Control-C / Control-V sequence used for copy/paste standard (that is, standard for many applications, but not for everything. I believe I found this out with emacs.) > Incidentally, I now see I was not on the ball in my previous reply > and omitted an important detail. When you use Paste Special in this > way, you then need to select "Unformatted text" from the available > options to get the effect you need. Sorry about that omission. As I said, if this can be mapped to Control-C / Control-V then I have it made. Otherwise, knowing the shortcut would be helpful. It seems I have to re-learn this if I'm to stick with OOo Writer. -Sean --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
