Thank you, Brian, for solving my first problem.
Thank you, Joan, for solving the second.
If only there could be a hard copy idiot's guide to Open Writer---you could
then be spared the problems of people like me! TS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Barker" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Deletion of unwanted items in Writer files
At 12:20 14/06/2009 +0100, Thomas Steel wrote:
Would someone be kind enough to help me with these 2 problems I have with
Writer? Both involve intrusions in long files. They have somehow crept in
& resist all attempts to remove.
1. A line an inch and a half long with the digit 1 below. I imagine this
denotes a footnote, but there are none in this file, as I use only
endnotes. Even deleting the whole section (before and after the intrusion)
won't work, as the intrusion remains. How can I get rid of it?
If you put the cursor over the figure "1", it should change into a hand
with a pointing finger. Click, and focus should move to the anchor for
this footnote in the text. When you know where the anchor is, you may be
able to investigate what is happening.
Alternatively, open the Navigator using View | Navigator (or press F5).
Click the Navigation button and then the Footnote button. The two buttons
with blue arrows now become "Previous footnote" and "Next footnote", and
you can use these to move focus to and locate footnote anchors.
2. Another file has a blank line inserted before what should be the first
line. When I reveal the codes there is indeed a one line empty box here.
Again I can find no way to delete it. What do I need to do?
There is no "reveal codes" in Writer, of course: presumably you mean that
you have toggled on the display of non-printing characters. But I'm not
sure how that would display a "box" that you couldn't have seen before, in
fact.
o Is this a frame? If so, click the edge of the frame to select it - so
that you see the eight green handles. Then press Backspace.
o Is this a one-row table? If so, put the cursor into the table and go
to Table | Delete > | Table. Alternatively, and perhaps more easily,
right-click in the table and use Row > | Delete.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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