Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with LibreOffice-text won't stay put

On 2012-03-15 14:13, Wanda Moore wrote:
> I have scoured the site to find where I can ask a question, but I couldn't
> find it.  ( I tried the mailing list, but I got about 100 emails within a
> couple days, and all repeating over and over. )
>
> I have Mac OS X and have been trying to use LibreOffice for a year at
> least.  I can't find out why the documents keep changing on me.  I "save"
> everything I do, but when I come back to it, it is all mixed up.  I home
> school and use this program every day.  I have spent hours redoing page
> after page and it will still mess up.  Some text will disappear.  I have
> downloaded PDF files and tried to copy/paste exercises for my kids, but
> even though it is available for us to do that, it will not stay put on the
> page.
>
> I couldn't find any trouble shooting help, either, and I had a hard time
> understanding the instructions.  The language is too technical and not
> clear to me.
>
> I do a lot of copying and pasting using different methods, but that doesn't
> change anything.  Even if I just highlight a portion of text and click
> "copy" and then "paste" it into a LO document, it will move.  I also use a
> "Grab" addon tool and that moves around, too.
>
> I have always used a .doc format, but I don't know what is best anymore.  I
> didn't have problems like this with Linux.  Please help me with this
> problem.  No one I know even uses this program so I have no one else to
> ask.
>
> Thank you so much in advance for any help you can give me!
>
> Wanda Moore
Hi.
With the Grab tool it grabs a screen image, like Ksnapshot or the 
windows snip tool, so you are probably pasting an image into your 
document. These can move around and you need to look at the Anchor and 
Wrap characteristics. You may find that anchor to page and no wrap suit 
your need.

Copying from a PDF can be as an image or as text. Can you edit the text 
you copy from the PDF. If not it is probably an image and you should 
treat it as for Grab above.

steve

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