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Posted to users@openoffice.apache.org by Teri Markanson <st...@gmail.com> on 2014/11/01 21:58:55 UTC
There are lines when I cut and paste.
Hi, I do a lot of cut + paste things with Open Office Documents. But, every
time there are these gray lines that appear at end of paragraphs and
various other spots. It's a truly time consuming, tedious, and seeming
unnecessary thing to have to remove from a document.
Isn't there a way to NOT get those lines? I attached a document that shows
the lines I'm referring to.
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Teri V. (LaCaille) Markanson - Live Laugh Love
Re: There are lines when I cut and paste.
Posted by Teri Markanson <st...@gmail.com>.
Thank you!
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Dave Barton <db...@tasit.net> wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Teri Markanson <st...@gmail.com>
> To: Apache OpenOffice Users <us...@openoffice.apache.org>
> Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 13:58:55 -0700
>
> > Hi, I do a lot of cut + paste things with Open Office Documents. But,
> > every time there are these gray lines that appear at end of paragraphs
> > and various other spots. It's a truly time consuming, tedious, and
> > seeming unnecessary thing to have to remove from a document.
> > Isn't there a way to NOT get those lines? I attached a document that
> > shows the lines I'm referring to.
> >
> > --
> > Teri V. (LaCaille) Markanson - Live Laugh Love
>
> Hi Teri,
>
> To protect subscribers to this mailing list the server automatically
> removes potentially harmful attachments. Which is why most list
> subscribers will not be able to see your MS Word (.doc) format
> attachment. As a list moderator I get to see these attachments.
>
> What you describe as "gray lines" are "field shadings" carried over from
> the source (eg. web pages) from which you copied the original text. Web
> pages often contain formatting codes and extra spaces which are not
> visible in a web browser, but are still present in any text you copy
> from them.
>
> You can turn off field shading by clicking on "View -> Field Shadings"
> in Writer's main menu, or by holding down the keyboard "Ctrl" key and
> pressing the F8 function key. This will NOT remove those fields, it will
> just turn off the gray shading. eg. The 15 blank spaces after the bullet
> point "stereotype" on your first page will still be there.
>
> To remove the codes (not the blank spaces) from the text pasted into you
> document, use Writer's main menu "Edit -> Paste Special..." option and
> select "Unformatted Text" from the list. For more information about copy
> & paste options please see:
>
> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Writer/Text#Cutting.2C_copying_and_pasting_text
>
> I would highly recommend that you study the User Guides to understand
> how to employ the software's powerful "Styles" and "Templates" features.
> There is a learning curve involved, but the advantages outweigh the time
> and effort required.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
--
Teri V. (LaCaille) Markanson - Live Laugh Love
Re: There are lines when I cut and paste.
Posted by Dave Barton <db...@tasit.net>.
-------- Original Message --------
From: Teri Markanson <st...@gmail.com>
To: Apache OpenOffice Users <us...@openoffice.apache.org>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 13:58:55 -0700
> Hi, I do a lot of cut + paste things with Open Office Documents. But,
> every time there are these gray lines that appear at end of paragraphs
> and various other spots. It's a truly time consuming, tedious, and
> seeming unnecessary thing to have to remove from a document.
> Isn't there a way to NOT get those lines? I attached a document that
> shows the lines I'm referring to.
>
> --
> Teri V. (LaCaille) Markanson - Live Laugh Love
Hi Teri,
To protect subscribers to this mailing list the server automatically
removes potentially harmful attachments. Which is why most list
subscribers will not be able to see your MS Word (.doc) format
attachment. As a list moderator I get to see these attachments.
What you describe as "gray lines" are "field shadings" carried over from
the source (eg. web pages) from which you copied the original text. Web
pages often contain formatting codes and extra spaces which are not
visible in a web browser, but are still present in any text you copy
from them.
You can turn off field shading by clicking on "View -> Field Shadings"
in Writer's main menu, or by holding down the keyboard "Ctrl" key and
pressing the F8 function key. This will NOT remove those fields, it will
just turn off the gray shading. eg. The 15 blank spaces after the bullet
point "stereotype" on your first page will still be there.
To remove the codes (not the blank spaces) from the text pasted into you
document, use Writer's main menu "Edit -> Paste Special..." option and
select "Unformatted Text" from the list. For more information about copy
& paste options please see:
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Writer/Text#Cutting.2C_copying_and_pasting_text
I would highly recommend that you study the User Guides to understand
how to employ the software's powerful "Styles" and "Templates" features.
There is a learning curve involved, but the advantages outweigh the time
and effort required.
Hope this helps.
Dave
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Re: There are lines when I cut and paste.
Posted by Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>.
At 13:58 01/11/2014 -0700, Teri Markanson wrote:
>I do a lot of cut + paste things with Open Office Documents. But,
>every time there are these gray lines that appear at end of
>paragraphs and various other spots.
If you paste in material from a structured document, you will
generally want the structure to carry over. It sounds as if you are
perhaps pasting in material from a web source, in which case the
material may be organised in "sections". Those sections are outlined
in light grey by default in the editing display - but do not appear
in the printed output, of course.
>It's a truly time consuming, tedious, and seeming unnecessary thing
>to have to remove from a document.
The only word you have correct there is probably "unnecessary", since
the light grey lines outline sections to show the structure of your
document whilst you are editing, but are not part of the document
appearance itself. You may not need to trouble yourself over them.
>Isn't there a way to NOT get those lines?
Yes: lots of ways.
>I attached a document that shows the lines I'm referring to.
Attached documents are removed by the mailing list processor before
messages are distributed, so no-one can have seen what you mean.
Suggestions:
o Ignore the lines: they don't print.
o Go to Tools | Options... | OpenOffice | Appearance, where you can
remove the tick from "Section boundaries". This is *not* recommended,
since it hides the structure of your document and will confuse you
further when things don't behave as you expect.
o Go to Format | Sections..., select each section in turn in the list
on the left, and click Remove. This will merge all the material into
a single part.
o Instead of using normal Paste to paste your material, use Edit |
Paste Special... (or Ctrl+Shift+V) and select "Unformatted text" in
the Paste Special dialogue. Unless you need to retain formatting of
the pasted material, this is probably by far the best technique.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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