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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