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Copy text from doc filled with frames
I have adocument filled with frames. How do I get rid of the frames and
copy the text inside the frames?
Re: Copy text from doc filled with frames
Posted by Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>.
At 09:15 04/07/2015 -0400, Dave Mainwaring wrote:
>I have a document filled with frames. How do I get rid of the frames
>and copy the text inside the frames?
o Put the cursor into a frame - without the frame itself selected, so
you don't see the eight coloured handles.
o Go to Edit | Select All (or Ctrl+A).
o Copy or Cut.
o Place the cursor where you want the text.
o Paste.
o Click at the edge of the frame, to show the eight coloured handles.
o Delete or Backspace.
I don't see any simple way to extend this technique to process more
than one frame at a time.
Alternatively, you may want to experiment with saving the document as
HTML or exporting it as PDF. If you open these in your favourite
browser or PDF viewer, you may have the facility to copy all the text
and paste it back into a text (Writer) document.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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Re: Copy text from doc filled with frames
Posted by Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>.
At 13:03 04/07/2015 -0400, Maurice Howe wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Dave Mainwaring wrote:
>>I have a document filled with frames. How do I get rid of the
>>frames and copy the text inside the frames?
>
>*_If the formatting is unimportant (or easily restored), select
>(CTRL-A) the entire document (or a page or paragraph if that's all
>that needs fixing), then copy it to the CLIPBOARD & delete it
>(CTRL-X), then open NOTEPAD and paste the data (CTRL-V).
>*-Now select the NOTEPAD (CTRL-A), copy the data to the CLIPBOARD
>(CTRL-C), move cursor to original now-empty document and paste the
>data into it (using (CTRL-V).
>*-Now apply formatting and you're done.
You write as if the original problem was about formatting, but it
isn't: it's about extracting text from within multiple frames. And
Ctrl+A doesn't select the entire document when you have frames: it
selects either all of one frame (and nothing else) or all of the text
except that in frames. That's the problem.
In any case, you don't need to stage material via another application
(such as Windows Notepad) in order to remove formatting: you just
need to use Edit | Paste Special (or Ctrl+Shift+V) and "Unformatted
text" instead of ordinary Paste.
Brian Barker
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Re: Copy text from doc filled with frames
Posted by Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>.
On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 13:03:51 -0400
Maurice Howe <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *-First, store the original file using a new name (so it can be recovered
> if needed).
> *_If the formatting is unimportant (or easily restored), select (CTRL-A)
> the entire document (or a page or paragraph if that's all that needs
> fixing), then copy it to the CLIPBOARD & delete it (CTRL-X), then open
> NOTEPAD and paste the data (CTRL-V).
> *-Now select the NOTEPAD (CTRL-A), copy the data to the CLIPBOARD (CTRL-C),
> move cursor to original now-empty document and paste the data into it
> (using (CTRL-V).
> *-Now apply formatting and you're done.
>
> Maurice
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 9:15 AM, DaveMainwaring <da...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I have adocument filled with frames. How do I get rid of the frames and
> > copy the text inside the frames?
> >
Frequently such frames result as output from an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program. If the original document is still to hand, and the OCR program, sometimes (depending on the OCR program) the frames can be removed by choosing "Plain text output" rather than "Preserve formatting" output and OCRing the document once again. The exact wording of these two options will depend on the OCR program.
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Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>
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Re: Copy text from doc filled with frames
Posted by Maurice Howe <ma...@gmail.com>.
*-First, store the original file using a new name (so it can be recovered
if needed).
*_If the formatting is unimportant (or easily restored), select (CTRL-A)
the entire document (or a page or paragraph if that's all that needs
fixing), then copy it to the CLIPBOARD & delete it (CTRL-X), then open
NOTEPAD and paste the data (CTRL-V).
*-Now select the NOTEPAD (CTRL-A), copy the data to the CLIPBOARD (CTRL-C),
move cursor to original now-empty document and paste the data into it
(using (CTRL-V).
*-Now apply formatting and you're done.
Maurice
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 9:15 AM, DaveMainwaring <da...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have adocument filled with frames. How do I get rid of the frames and
> copy the text inside the frames?
>