Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice

       yes, footnotes become jumbled;
           but the fact these are numbered makes them 'find'able  ;-)

       During the 15-30 minutes you're locating these and correcting them,
           you can contemplate all sorts of nasty things to do to these
'glorified typewriters'
             or
          you can think pleasant thoughts while listening to some nice music
            or
           ... somewhere in between  ;-)



On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 7:28 AM, VA <cuyfalls@hotmail.com> wrote:

I had never heard of the "paste special" feature, so I just tried it. I
> started with an .rtf file that LO didn't like. I selected the entire file
> with Ctrl-A, copied it (Ctrl-C) and then pasted it special back onto itself
> as "unformatted text." It worked just as well as copying to a text editor.
> Kinda slick actually.
>
> But, with either method, I lost the contents of my footnotes. To date, I
> haven't found a way with LO to convert formatted text to plain unformatted
> text and keep footnotes.
>
> Virgil
>
>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in
> libreoffice
>
>
> At 18:14 21/12/2012 -0600, Anne Noname wrote:
>
> > If you merely copy & paste over the initial file, then the messed-up
> > formatting may still exist;
>
> That's why that wasn't my suggestion!
>
>  in order to be sure of eliminating whatever might be causing the 'kink',
> > the document needs to be fresh  ;-)
>
> That's not true.  But in any case, you are presumably suggesting that
> a fresh document would anyway be necessary with your round-the-houses
> route via other software.
>
> Again, you are very welcome to go the long way around if you
> prefer.  You will not be the only person to do so.
>
> Brian Barker

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