On 24/11/17 1:16 PM, Rodney Nicholson wrote:
Hi guys (and girls): I love OpenOffice, am using it a lot, but do not know a
great deal about it, and have an issue: It looks like I somehow effectively
'lost' a 27 line paragraph of written material in a way that is a complete
mystery to me:
And it's a mystery to me as well
I wanted to attach a copy/paste of the error to this email, but when I
pasted the error text into this email, the 27 lines came out completely normal
(as in the original). And when I copy/paste the errant text to a new
OpenOffice window, it comes out fine - the original correct text - there as
well. But the mystery is not solved because when I 'cut' the 27 line
paragraph, as well as the previous and following paragraphs, from the original
text, and then copy/paste the 'good' text from the new window back into the
original text, it still comes out weird, that is: the same.
You could try two things:
1. Select the 27 lines paragraph and press Cntr+M which restores the
default formatting.
If that doesn't solve your problem
2. Copy the whole document into a new document.
So I don't know how to restore this paragraph in the original text.
In short, here is the story: The error-free paragraph has 27 lines and
about 60 characters per line amounting to about 1600 characters. But what I
see on the screen is a total of just 83 characters on 44 lines. Many of the 44
lines are blank, and on no line do the characters extend further than 12
characters from the left margin! So about 1520 characters from the 27 lines
are missing and what is shown is unintelligible. Since, as mentioned above, I
cannot cut/paste the error into this email, instead I will copy the error,
character by character, below. The very first line of the error text is a
squiggly red line that extends all the way across the page which was not in the
original. Below that squiggly red line, the text between the two '= = = = = '
is what I see:
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do have a good version of the problem text in a different file, I remain unable
to reinsert it back into the document. When I cut/paste what looks like good
text from the other file, it still comes out as the 83 characters shown above.
Presumably I am not the very first user to have come across this problem. So I
am hoping the explanation of how to avoid it in the future, and the solution
for restoring the paragraph back to its proper place will be trivial? I have
several hundred pages of similar material which remains unaffected. At least,
so far.
Thank you for your help with this.
Rodney.Alberta, CANADA.
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