R N D Martin wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Barker) wrote:
*From:* Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* users@openoffice.org
*Date:* Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:55:54 +0100
At 15:26 14/04/2008 +0100, Niall Martin wrote:
In Lotus I am used to creating a table and then using copy and
paste >to batch paste direct to the cells in the table, but in OO I
seem to >have to paste special into the document as text, and then
turn what >I have pasted into a table. I find this rather long
winded and >awkward. Have I missed something?
Possibly. I think that, in Writer, this is even easier than you
hope. Don't create any table first. Instead, copy the cells from
your spreadsheet and then use Edit | Paste Special... (or
Ctrl+Shift+V), selecting "DDE link" from the options. This creates
a table with your imported values, which you can then format as you
require.
Note that this technique actually creates a link to the source
spreadsheet instead of a copy - so the spreadsheet file must
continue to be available and any subsequent change to it will be
reflected in your Writer document. If this is not what you need,
after you have pasted the link, go to Edit | Links..., select the
relevant link in the list, and press Break Link. You will now have
an independent text document.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
I did experiment briefly with the DDE option, but abandoned it at once,
since it did not seem to be doing what I wanted. Your second paragraph
I regard as a workaround which I will try some time, but still regard
as rather clumsy. Thanks for your comment.
Niall Martin
Niall, have you done the Paste Special as formatted test? That seems to
preserve more of the formatting than the DDE link, whether later broken
or not. You should end up with a table immediately after doing the Paste
Special that comes pretty close to what you had in Calc. When you say
"turn what I have pasted into a table" what kind of steps are you going
through? Maybe we can help with that part.
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