At 14:11 09/05/2007 +0000, Melissa Steckbauer wrote:
I want to paste to a site
http://www.lmcc.net/applications/2007.2swingspace/projectdetails.php
for an application and I cannot. Nor can I click and drag the work,
nor can I send the file to myself and open it in gmail or
hotmail. It says it is a binary file and when I try to save it
nothing happens. What do you suggest. I need this ASAP. Thank you, Melissa
There are two issues here, I think.
As far as I can tell (I have not researched this thoroughly) the web
site you mention allows you to paste only plain text into each
window. If this is so, you will not be able to use a saved word
processor document (whether it is in Writer, .odt, format or Word
.doc format) for this purpose. By all means prepare the text you
wish to submit in Writer (and save it for your future
reference). When you have reviewed what you have written, checked
the spelling, and so on, you can paste it into the web site's
windows. To do that, have the web site open in your browser and your
prepared text open in OpenOffice Writer at the same time. For each
required element in the web site, select the relevant text and copy
it to the clipboard. Switch to the browser window and paste the text
into the web site. You can also drag the selected text between
windows if you prefer: use Ctrl+drag to copy rather than move the
text. Don't worry about formatting, as the web site accepts only
plain text and most formatting will be lost. The only aspect of
formatting carried over will be paragraph breaks.
If you send yourself a word processor document by e-mail and receive
it at a Gmail or Hotmail address, you are very probably reading your
mail through a web interface. This means that, unless you explicitly
download it to your system, any attached file remains at the remote
mail server. If you wish to use it, there should (indeed, there
must!) be some way to retrieve it back to your system. Then anything
that you have an appropriate application for should open
properly. At any rate, this is a Gmail or Hotmail issue, not one
concerning OpenOffice itself.
I trust this is helpful.
Brian Barker
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