Hi :) Err, you could try copy&pasting in or re-pasting but use Shift Ctrl v to paste in as unformatted text. But then you will lose the functionality of the strange 9 thing Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Alan Stern <[email protected]> >To: Michael Manning <[email protected]> >Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, 17 May 2013, 15:57 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to unprotect readonly parts of a document? > > >On Fri, 17 May 2013, Michael Manning wrote: > >> This is very strange. I have not seen this issue before. >> >> After experimenting with the file for a bit, I found that >> 1. I saved the file to my disk >> 2. added a space at the beginning of the line >> 3 saved the file again >> 4. closed the file >> 5 opened the file in LibreOffice. I found that the read-only protection >> had been removed. I was then able to edit that read-only area of the line >> - as well as remove the space at the beginning of the line. > >That doesn't work for me. > >> I would love to know how the file had been generated to cause this problem. > >I don't know the exact details. In outline, the file was originally >created in Microsoft Word (probably on a Mac) and the readonly fields >were added by way of the EndNote plugin. I then imported the .doc file >into LibreOffice and saved it in .odt format. > >Does this sound like a bug? Perhaps I should report it. > >Here's another odd thing I encountered. Moving the cursor one >character at a time (using the right-arrow key), I find what appears to >be two hidden characters: one at the beginning of the readonly field >and one at its end. > >That is, start with the cursor just to the left of the blank space >before the "(9)" field. Pressing right-arrow advances the cursor to >the right of the space, leaving it on the left-hand edge of the '('. >Pressing right-arrow again doesn't move the cursor at all. Pressing it >once more advances the cursor between the '(' and '9'. > >Alan Stern > > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
