2008/5/18 Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At 22:06 17/05/2008 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >> I have an odf file that contains image elements inadvertently copied while >> coping a table from the interwebs. Despite a file size of only 12 kb, the >> file takes over a minute to open, and each time I erase the images more keep >> cropping up that I did not see before. Is there a way to delete all non-text >> elements from odf/ods files? > > Two suggestions: > > o Is the delay whilst OpenOffice fetches new copies of the graphics from > the network?
It appears so, but I've yet to open wireshark and check. > If so, this must mean that they are inserted as links rather > than directly. Go to Edit | Links..., select all the links (you can do them > together), and use Break Link to break the links. You should then be able > to delete any visible graphics present. Thank you!!! That showed tens of links, none of which were seen in the document. Removing them now makes the document open as fast as other documents. > o Paste Special is - as so often - your friend. If you had pasted the > original material using Edit | Paste Special... (or right-click | Paste > Special... or Ctrl+Shift+V) instead of ordinary Paste, you could have > avoided pasting the graphics. As it is, you still use this to remedy the > situation. Just cut the relevant material and paste it back into the same > area using Paste Special. In the Paste Special dialogue, either (in Writer) > use "Unformatted text" or (in Calc) remove the tick from Paste All and also > from Objects. Actually, the links survived Paste As Text. Should I file a bug about that? Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
