openoffice vs pasting from mozilla

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:36:26 +0000

> Is it possible to copy text from a web page and paste it into an Open
> Office document (preferably text document) and have the document show
> the text as opposed to the html source code?

I just highlight the text in Mozilla, press Ctrl+C, switch to OO, then do Edit, Paste Special, Unformatted Text.

Garry Knight

openoffice vs pasting from mozilla

> I just discovered Paste Special in the windows version. It pastes HTML
> jsut like M$ Word does... when you paste it looks like you are looking
> at the Web Page. However, in the Linux version (1.0.2) Paste
> Special->HTML pastes the source code.
>
> Any idea how to display the pasted HTML source properly?

I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Do you mean you want to copy from Mozilla into OO and have it display the way it does in Mozilla, i.e. with all the clickable links visible as links, and so on? In other words, to convert the pasted HTML source into interpreted HTML?

If so, I don't know of a way. I tried doing New, HTML Document and pasting into that, but it pasted the raw HTML code. And Paste Special gives four options:

OpenOffice.org Writer
Formatted text (RTF)
HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
Unformatted text

It looks like the 3rd one should do the job, but it doesn't. Even if you paste it into a Writer document then save it as HTML, it converts '<p>' into '<P><p></P>'.

You could try asking on the OO user's mailing list or the OO forum. http://openoffice.org/mail_list.html http://www.ooforum.org

Garry Knight