Steve wrote: > When you paste from the docx, can you try "paste special", unformatted > text and gain success.
That’s what I normally do, and I’m sure I did it on this occasion. > 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 Thanks for the tip about ghexedit. I didn’t know about that. It seems that the offending character is 000A, which is simply a line feed. I’ve dealt with these before: in fact I have a routine that includes converting them all to paragraph breaks beforehand (changing \n to \n in the mysterious way of regular expressions). I’m not sure that I did it with this one, though. NoOp: Thanks for the information about the bug report. It seems pretty certain that my problem is related. (I tried to add to the bug report and created a Bugzilla account but the interface defeated me, and my comment didn’t get through.) Tom wrote: > 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. I always use “paste special” (in fact I have a keyboard shortcut for “paste unformatted text”), but you’re right: it’s probably better to save as .txt first. I sometimes do that; I may have to do it consistently in the future. Thanks to Jay, Steve, NoOp and Tom for the help. Now back to work (I hope)! Séamas ------ -- 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
