Hi :) I sometimes use a plain-text editor to paste things into before moving them on into another app. It either strips weird coding or displays it so i can see the weirdness and delete bits. It would be nicer if it was easier to just copy&paste without stuffing everything up. The method of pasting unformatted text is quite neat too but using an intermediary can be interesting. Regards from Tom :)
--- On Sun, 13/11/11, Jay Lozier <jsloz...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Jay Lozier <jsloz...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office quitting To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 13 November, 2011, 23:38 Seamus On 11/13/2011 05:23 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: > > On 14/11/11 11:07, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote: >> Hello, Jay. >> >> I should have said that it’s in Writer only. I’m using Libre Office >> 3.4.3 (build 302), from the Ubuntu repository. I’m using Gnome Classic, >> not Unity (and on a fairly dated computer). >> >> Today was a disaster, but also may have led to a discovery. Having tried >> everything else, I resorted to purging Libre Office altogether from my >> computer and reinstalling from scratch. Same problem. >> >> Going on the supposition that the problem was specific to a particular >> document, I reconstructed the complex document I was working on, >> starting with a new layout, styles, and all the components copied from >> various places. That took me most of the day (and I’m not finished yet). >> Everything seemed to be working properly now; then, when I copied in the >> text from one particular file (a .docx file that I received from someone >> else), the problem began again. >> >> I noticed what seemed to be a space at the end of each paragraph (which, >> incidentally, is a very common feature of Microsoft files copied into >> Open Office or Libre Office). Now, though, the application would quit >> every time I tried to delete one by backspacing over it or using the >> delete key. After many failures I managed to get rid of them all (I >> hope) by selecting “cut” from the menu, or pasting other text over the >> mystery space. Thanks for the observation. If you find more information please append/submit a bug report. You might try opening the problematic docx file by itself in Write when you get a chance and see what happens. >> I saved one of these characters and pasted it into Character Map to see >> if I could identify it (and so be able to search for it in the future), >> but it won’t allow me to paste it in. >> >> If this is the source of the problem (and of course I don’t know for >> certain that it is) I would hardly expect an application to quit because >> of the presence a particular invisible character. >> >> That’s today’s episode of the saga! >> > Hi. > When you paste from the docx, can you try "paste special", unformatted > text and gain success. > Can you paste the text from docx into a file, save and view it with > ghexedit to identify the character. > You might be able to paste the character in here to find some info. > http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm?q=%C9%AC&preview=entity > > steve > Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
