Comment inline On Sunday 27 January 2008 04:41:46 Lindsay Graham wrote: > 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?
Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > Appearance. One of the first selections is Text Boundary. Dan > 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). > > > > -- > > Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
