At 07:39 04/06/2007 -0400, Tom Rohr wrote:
Thank you for your response,
"Format"-> "Page" doesn't correct the problem. It runs all the text
from the left and from the right together. I want to reconstruct
the text into two independent columns like it was originally before
being converted into open office. I've attached a sample for your review.
Thanks
Tom Rohr
Here's a suggestion.
o Put a space in front of "good" to tidy the right-hand column.
o Save your Writer document as "Text (.txt)". Close this document.
o Change the extension of the saved file from .txt to .csv.
o Right-click this file and choose Open With > and then select
OpenOffice. The file will open in Calc.
o In the Text Import window, choose "Fixed width" and then set a
single column separator on the ruler above the sample window. (58
seems to be what is required.)
o Your text now opens in Calc in two columns.
o Create a new Writer (text) document.
o Use Table | Insert > | Table... in the Writer document to create a
table of two columns and *one* row, *removing* the tick from
"Heading" under "Options".
o Select the text in one column at a time from the Calc spreadsheet
and copy it into the appropriate table cell in the Writer document
(which will automatically expand to allow this). When pasting, use
Paste Special (in the Edit or context menus) instead of Paste, and
then select "Unformatted text".
You'll then have some tidying up to do, of course. It's not
completely obvious quite where you want the various bits of text to
end up, so you may need to modify this as necessary.
I'll send you a copy off-list of what I have produced this way.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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