Paul, For future consideration: if your iPad and Mac are both signed into your iCloud account you can type a note in the Notes app on your iPad and retrieve it in the Notes app on your Mac, no need to email it. Then cut and paste into the text file in AOO.
Steve Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 19, 2022, at 4:21 PM, Paul Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you, Brian. Changing the text colour from white to default black > solved the issue. I am recording my part in our family’s lineage and, at 70 > years of age, just trying recollect as much as I can was challenging enough - > technical issues were an frustrating distraction. Thank you again. > >> On 16 Jan 2022, at 11:10 pm, [email protected] >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> So when you have concerned to better illustrate the problem must be >> technical as well as uninoperative for all. >> >> From: Paul Collins <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2022 3:54 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: Paul Collins <[email protected]> >> Subject: Copy text from email paste into AOO Document FAIL >> >> 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. >> >> In the attached file, to better illustrate the problem, I >> >> A) opened AOO and created a new, blank text document (note position of >> cursor in top left corner), >> >> B) copied a text passage from within the received email and >> >> C) attempted to paste copied text into blank AOO document. >> >> >> >> >> I will be most grateful for any advise users may offer. >> >> Sincerely, Paul Collins. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
