Twayne wrote:
Hi,
I'm not sure this can be done, but ... going to ask anyway. XP Pro SP3
and Office 2002 and OO.o 3.1.1.
I am hoping to use Writer to accomplish the following in OO.o instead of
Word?
Is there a way to reverse the order of pages in a Word document? Last
page becomes first, next to last becomes next, and so on. Instead of 1,
2, 3, ... the physical appearance changes to 42, 41, 40 ... 3, 2, 1.
I have a Word document which is displayed backwards: In other words, the
LAST page is actually page 1, next to last is page 2, and so on up to
the first page, which is page currently page 42, but displays at the top
of the screen display.
This is meant to be an onscreen reference, so printing in reverse order
won't suffice; access is going to be onscreen. It's also hell to edit a
document with reversed pages<g>!
I made some brief tests as simply cutting/pasting the pages into their
correct order but quickly got lost and botched the job; mainly because
as soon as you move a page, its page number changes in Word, so without
making each page large enough to see and comparing next/following pages,
one gets lost pretty quickly. Thought about a macro, move bottom to
position 1, bottom to position 2, etc, but I'm not able to get anything
to work. I just don't know VBA well enough.
It's an almost-all text document, with only the first and last pages as
graphic, so graphics don't worry me. Getting to read in the correct
order does though. Since it came from a scanner that saved to Word
format, it's also full of Word's Section Breaks, none of which are
necessary. There is only one page needs to be landscape, so that doesn't
worry me either.
I tried opening the .RTF version of the file in OO.o 3.1.1 and it looks
perfect, except of course the pages are all backwards ordered.
Any thoughts or ideas on how to accomplish this with OO.o?
Not very pretty, but this might work. I'm using Windows XP. In OOo, when
I do File|Print I have a "Generic/Text only" option. Select that; then
tick "Print to file"; then "Options|Pages|Reversed|OK". OK to print;
give the file name a .txt suffix.
Then you should have a text file with all the words in the correct
order. But when I view the file it seems to have lots of extraneous
spaces, and line breaks between each word. I've not investigated why
that is; something to do with forcing a left margin, I think. It does
not open nicely in OOo, so use a text editor or do some post processing
with something like awk.
As I said, not pretty!
--
Bob Long
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