Hi all,
A friend of mine is using LibreOffice Writer on her desktop. I recently installed the most recent version.
It works fine, but when she copies text from her e-mail into Writer, grey lines appear which look a bit like tables in MS Word. She doesn't want this. How can she get rid of those lines?
Many thanks in advance.
Fokke Nauta
Hi all,Right click -> paste special -> unformatted text.
A friend of mine is using LibreOffice Writer on her desktop. I recently installed the most recent version.
It works fine, but when she copies text from her e-mail into Writer, grey lines appear which look a bit like tables in
MS Word. She doesn't want this. How can she get rid of those lines?
Many thanks in advance.
Fokke Nauta
Hi all,
A friend of mine is using LibreOffice Writer on her desktop. I recently installed the most recent version.
It works fine, but when she copies text from her e-mail into Writer,
grey lines appear which look a bit like tables in MS Word. She doesn't
want this. How can she get rid of those lines?
Many thanks in advance.
Fokke Nauta
On 4/19/23 10:27, this is what Fokke Nauta wrote:
Hi all,Right click -> paste special -> unformatted text.
A friend of mine is using LibreOffice Writer on her desktop. I
recently installed the most recent version.
It works fine, but when she copies text from her e-mail into Writer,
grey lines appear which look a bit like tables in MS Word. She doesn't
want this. How can she get rid of those lines?
Many thanks in advance.
Fokke Nauta
That will remove all html etc coding. Might fix the issue.
On 19/04/2023 15:27, Fokke Nauta wrote:
Hi all,
A friend of mine is using LibreOffice Writer on her desktop. I
recently installed the most recent version.
It works fine, but when she copies text from her e-mail into Writer,
grey lines appear which look a bit like tables in MS Word. She doesn't
want this. How can she get rid of those lines?
Many thanks in advance.
Fokke Nauta
My guess is she will find they go away if she goes to the "View" menu
and disables "Table Boundaries".
However if that is what they are, she doesn't need to disable them
because they are only there to help you position yourself in the
document when editing it. They do not show if you print it out or if you convert it to a PDF for distribution.
On 4/19/2023 10:27 AM, Fokke Nauta wrote:
Hi all,
A friend of mine is using LibreOffice Writer on her desktop. I
recently installed the most recent version.
It works fine, but when she copies text from her e-mail into Writer,
grey lines appear which look a bit like tables in MS Word. She doesn't
want this. How can she get rid of those lines?
Many thanks in advance.
Fokke Nauta
Is the email an HTML email ?
I would think a vanilla text would behave as a vanilla text.
Whereas the HTML in an HTML email, can be composed by "evil"
composition tools. Perhaps I could start with Seamonkey Composer,
make some fancy material, paste it into an email tool and send it.
Then the recipient will have a mess to clean up.
Texts which are "micro-positioned" exist as single characters
in a tool. It is hard to convince any subsequent tool, to
"do the right thing" and put all the characters back into a full string.
M y d o g h a s f l e a s ===> My dog has fleas # Hard
to fix when characters
# are
separately packaged...
The copy/paste buffer can have multiple representations in it.
The HTML version could be thick with material, including
the usage of tables to "force" a particular format or style.
When even I have mild problems with copy/pasta, I might
use Notepad as an intermediary.
email ---> Notepad window ------------> LibreOffice Writer window
copy paste, reselect, copy paste
You might be able to cause the copy/paste buffer to "drop" the undesired format.
You can print to PDF, wipe over text, then paste.
No, that does not fix a "fleas" problem.
You can print to PDF, then open the PDF in LibreOffice. If
you open in Draw for example, the result would be useless.
If Writer will open a PDF, perhaps the PDF does not have the
table information that originated in the source tool.
Finally, there are copy buffer manipulation tools for Windows, which
can show you the available representations, and you can
select one that way, without using Notepad as described above.
https://techpp.com/2022/02/10/best-clipboard-managers-for-windows/
If you're a power user, Powershell has Get-Clipboard .
https://www.pdq.com/powershell/get-clipboard/
get-clipboard
Without even getting fancy, she may be able to get the text
out of the Terminal window, with a single command. Without
parameters, you get the text.
Paul
Paul wrote:
Is the email an HTML email ?
She is using hotmail from her browser.
I would think a vanilla text would behave as a vanilla text.
What does it mean, vanilla text?
Fokke Nauta wrote:
Paul wrote:
Is the email an HTML email ?
She is using hotmail from her browser.
Ah, so she's actually copying html content from a web browser, not
copying from an actual email program
I would think a vanilla text would behave as a vanilla text.
What does it mean, vanilla text?
plain text, not html
I'll stick with my original suggestion, paste using ctrl-alt-shift-v
Big Al's suggestion is the mouse equivalent
"Fokke Nauta" <usenet@solfon.nl> wrote
| Thanks, but I think this is all too complicated for her.
| But perhaps copying first to notepad may do the trick.
|
I also do that quite a bit. The Clipboard can hold numerous
formats. By pasting to Notepad you filter out all but plain
text. I regularly do the same when copying from something
like a RichEdit window into an email. I'm composing email
as plain text, but the formatting still gets messed up if I
don't filter it through Notepad, showing that there's some
bleed-through between formats.
You could also have her switch to plain text email,
which is safer, but I'm guessing she'd need an actual email
program for that.
Fokke NautaRight click -> paste special -> unformatted text.
That will remove all html etc coding. Might fix the issue.
Thanks. I will tell her.
But perhaps copying first to notepad may do the trick.
In article <kac8k3FjqffU1@mid.individual.net>,
Fokke Nauta says...
But perhaps copying first to notepad may do the trick.
PureText is a tiny tray utility that removes all text formatting from
your clipboard and optionally pastes the resulting pure text to the
active window with a single hotkey.
http://stevemiller.net/PureText/
It has been a fixture on my computers for years, recommended
On 20.04.2023 09:41, Fokke Nauta wrote:
Fokke NautaRight click -> paste special -> unformatted text.
That will remove all html etc coding. Might fix the issue.
Thanks. I will tell her.
From the LibreOffice help:
Paste Unformatted Text
Paste only the text contents, without any formatting.
Choose Edit - Paste Special - Paste Unformatted Text.
Right-click to open the context menu and choose Paste Special -
Unformatted Text.
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + V.
On 20/04/2023 11:36, Andy Burns wrote:
Fokke Nauta wrote:
Paul wrote:
Is the email an HTML email ?
She is using hotmail from her browser.
Ah, so she's actually copying html content from a web browser, not
copying from an actual email program
Yes, that's correct.
But she sent her mail to me, and I copied the text from my mail program (Thunderbird) to my LibreOffice Writer. The same result, grey lines.
Hi all,
A friend of mine is using LibreOffice Writer on her desktop. I recently installed the most recent version.
It works fine, but when she copies text from her e-mail into Writer,
grey lines appear which look a bit like tables in MS Word. She doesn't
want this. How can she get rid of those lines?
Many thanks in advance.
Fokke Nauta
Hi all,
A friend of mine is using LibreOffice Writer on her desktop. I recently installed the most recent version.
It works fine, but when she copies text from her e-mail into Writer,
grey lines appear which look a bit like tables in MS Word. She doesn't
want this. How can she get rid of those lines?
Many thanks in advance.
Fokke Nauta
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