At 13:53 16/01/2022 +1100, Paul Collins wrote:
I typed a block of text into Mail on my iPad and sent the email to
my iMac (late 2017 running Mojave 10.14.6). Opening Mail on the
iMac, the email had been received successfully.
After then opening AOO 4.1.11 on my I Mac and creating a new blank
text document, I then copied the text from the received email in
Mail and attempted to paste it into the blank AOO text document. The
result was gibberish ; i.e. the text had disappeared with numerous
lengthy blank spaces in lieu, 2 (yellow highlighted) squiggly red
lines (which AOO generates to indicate unfamiliar/incorrect spelling
in its normal operation in Text documents etc.), more blank space
and finally the cursor indicating the end of the pasted text. Cursor
position is green highlighted before and after paste operation.
The text you copied was white on a black background. So you have
pasted white text into a new document with a white background. And
white text on a white background is naturally illegible. The
misspelling underlines clarify that the text is genuinely there.
You could:
o select the text and change the text colour - perhaps to black or to
"Automatic", or
o select the text and go to Format | Default Formatting.
More simply, you could avoid carrying the text colour property over
in the paste action by using Edit | Paste Special... (Or
Ctrl+Shift+V) instead of ordinary Paste, and then selecting
"Unformatted text" in the Paste Special dialogue.
(Oh, and it is "sought" that you mean, not "sort".)
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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