[libreoffice-users] Extracting content out of table format received in an email

Try pasting into a text file and then copying from
the text file.  Sometimes that works for me.

There are more elegant ways of doing the same thing,
but it usually involves writing a Perl script.


Mike


On 2/23/22 02:09, users+help@global.libreoffice.org wrote:
> Do you ever receive emails of mini-newsletters where you want to save some
> of the content in the email but if you copy/paste it into Libre Writer it’s
> all in a table?
>
> Looks good but now you wish to delete 1/3 of the content except you have to
> delete rows, etc.
>
> So time consuming.
>
> I’ve tried all 4 ways to Paste into Libre Writer (plain text loses all the
> bullet  points)
>
> Is there any shortcut to removing content from a table without losing all
> the formatting (e.g. bullet points, graphics?
>
>
> Thank you.


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