Thanks, Michael. I had been using Table > Select, but I think you got it
with mentioning nested tables. Whilst I had been conscious of that
possibility, I had not systematically looked for nested tables. Finding all
nested tables seems to be not all that easy, but it certainly does do the
trick.
OO does not seem to have a View option that takes away the page borders that
appear in both in Page Layout and Web Layout. This makes it difficult to
pick up table borders where there are tables within the document. Is there
a way of making the page borders disappear or making table borders show up
in a way that distinguishes them from the page borders?
Thanks also for your suggestion about Mozilla Firefox, Michael. My brother,
who is also a web developer, has been saying similar things, so changing to
Firefox is on my to-do list (but probably after I feel more confident with
OpenOffice).
Lindsay Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [users] WRITER -- CONVERT TABLE TO TEXT
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).
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Michael
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