On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:10:18 +0100 Cor Nouws wrote: > Hi Lindsay, > > Lindsay Graham wrote (26-1-2008 12:57) > > I have been copying text from web pages into Writer, and then trying > > to convert the resultant table to text. But the table remains, and > > I just cannot remove it. No problems in, dare I say it, in MS Word, > > but how do I do it in OpenOffice? > > When the cursor is in a table, you can choose Table|Convert|... etc. > > Also: when copying from a webpage or e-mail to an office document, I > would always try Edit|Paste special > Unformatted text . >
One thing i would also do is highlight the table first (Table - Select - Table). Many table based web pages use nested tables, and highlighting shows the table you are going to convert to text; which may not be the table you expected. Another thing i have found is i have greater success copying from Mozilla Firefox with its Gecko rendering engine into Writer than any other browser. As a web developer i use: * Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, 6.0 and 7.0. * Firefox 2.X, 3.Xb (beta), Seamonkey and Epiphany (Gnome on Linux). * Opera and * Safari(on Windows) * Konqueror (KDE on Linux). -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
