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Re: [LUG] Problem pasting content from webpage into oOo: Ubuntu

 

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:17:11 +0000
Henry Bremridge wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 10:17:13AM +0000, Henry Bremridge wrote:
> > On Ubuntu 7.10, my partner had been copying contents from firefox
> > (tables, text from a government/education website) into oOo (2.3),
> > but then oOo crashed and would not reload the document.
> > 
> 
> Additional problem: I could not convert the oOo file to doc. However
> I think I found the problem
> - The tables in the document were basically tables within tables and
> some of the text was actually a table
> - There was a couple of sections within the document
> - There were a couple of 'macros' that were accidently copied into
> the document from the government side (commands to select the data
> from the overall database)
> 
> Once I stripped out the data and copied them to a fresh table and
> removed the sections then all worked.
> 
> PS File size in oOo was 35k, in doc was 407k

HTML file size? :D

Grant.

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