John Shelton wrote: > Your admonishments are well taken and I apologize if a statement I made > tended toward starting a "this sucks war". I assure you I had no such > intent. I get as tired of them as anybody even when I am just an observer > and not directly involved. > > The reference to permitted users for MS Office was in direct response to > someone asking me if I knew the answer to that. > > I very often "control C/control V" online news articles, for instance, > which I subsequently print or save. I very often find myself unable to > format (margins, fonts, etc.) these items in Writer, but not so in a > word processor that I am more familiar with. Occasionally items just > will not even appear at all, but I can open another word processor and > the item shows up normally. I encounter many more "difficulties", but I > better take one at a time. If I can solve one, then I will look at > another. > > Perhaps I have found a forum here that I can get some advice and > assistance that I need to learn this program and how it works and > hopefully raise my personal ratings for it. In time, perhaps I can > learn to utilize the program so I can replace a very expensive program > that it basically parallels. > > Does that sound like a better attitude? John > Hi John, That sounds like an excellent attitude to me. Your problem sounds like you're trying to copy stuff from a website and pasting it as is into an OO document. You might try the unformatted paste. Just replace your control V by shift-control V (or Paste Special in the Edit menu), select "Unformatted text" and that should solve your problem. Let us know how you make out.
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