Or perhaps… Create new doc. From styles menu: load styles From the dialog that results, check the “From file” box. Select your original file from the dialog that results; Choose the parameters from the import dialog; Import.
Anyway, that’s the way I do it. I don’t like the “Select everything and delete it” option, because I did that once. Screwed up and chose to save the file. It did what I told it, and saved an empty doc over my finished report. Fortunately, I use a Mac with a Time Machine backup, so I didn’t lose it all. But it was--at least momentarily--a heart-stopper. Jim > On Aug 14, 2016, at 3:43 AM, Felmon Davis <dav...@union.edu> wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Aug 2016, Martin Groenescheij wrote: > >> >> >> On 14/08/16 2:47 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: >>> On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 12:33:37 -0400 (EDT) >>> Felmon Davis <dav...@union.edu> wrote: >>>> greets! >>>> I suspect it's not possible without attempting a macro but: >>>> is it possible to save say pages 10 to 20 of a document to a file? >>>> I know one can export selected pages to a pdf but I'd like to 'export' >>>> selected pages to odt or, preferably, to doc. >>>> basically 'save as' but get to choose the pages. >>>> f. >>>> -- >>>> Felmon Davis >>>> Reporter: "How did you like school when you were growing up, Yogi?" >>>> Yogi Berra: "Closed." >>>> >>> On the rare occasions I need to do this I use one of two approaches. I >>> either Save the file under a new name, then delete the earlier and later >>> pages to leave only what I require, or I select and Copy the pages >>> required, pasting them into a new file. >> Alternative is to copy the .odt file and delete the content of the copied >> file. save this under a new name. Now you have at least an empty document >> with all Styles as in your original file. Everything you copy now from your >> original documents should have at least the Styles preserved. > > forgot about this way of doing it (preserving formatting); may have had mixed > success with it in the past also. > > I'll remember it the next occasion. > > I suppose I could also build a template. > > f. > > -- > Felmon Davis > > "Success covers a multitude of blunders." > -- George Bernard Shaw > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
