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neofuddled
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 Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:04 pm Post subject: Traveling Tabs |
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| I received a Word document that I converted to .sxw for editing. I know nothing whatever about Word. In this document, the tabs behave strangely (perhaps having imbibed too much German beer?). When I edit the first sentence of a paragraph, the tab jumps back and forth (left and right) as I type. I don't know how to make it stop. When I finished editing the document, the tabs did not all line up equally. I cut the text and pasted special > unformatted but that did not stop the jumping tabs. I have looked in the Contents menu, in the various setting menus, and in the NeoWiki. Trouble is, I don't know what subject (other than "tabs") to look under to resolve the case of the traveling tabs. |
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neofuddled
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Okay, I admit this is a goofy issue, and maybe it hasn't happened to anyone before, and maybe it won't ever happen again. I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure it out (i.e. make it go away). I finally booted up my old OS 9 machine and translated the original .doc into WordPerfect and the tabs work fine (and reveal codes revealed nothing out of the ordinary). So if there ever is a next time, at least putting it into WP first is one way to solve the problem. |
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Orgleser
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Neofuddled, I think it is not goofy ... I for myself just had no idea how to help. Thx for the workaround-tip. |
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jjmckenzie51
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject: Re: Traveling Tabs |
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| neofuddled wrote: | | I received a Word document that I converted to .sxw for editing. I know nothing whatever about Word. In this document, the tabs behave strangely (perhaps having imbibed too much German beer?). When I edit the first sentence of a paragraph, the tab jumps back and forth (left and right) as I type. I don't know how to make it stop. When I finished editing the document, the tabs did not all line up equally. I cut the text and pasted special > unformatted but that did not stop the jumping tabs. I have looked in the Contents menu, in the various setting menus, and in the NeoWiki. Trouble is, I don't know what subject (other than "tabs") to look under to resolve the case of the traveling tabs. |
Neobefuddled:
Can you create an Issue for this and upload the file? I would like to look at this.
James |
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neofuddled
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't know how to create an issue. If you mean Bugzilla, I tried to post there and it wants me to log in. But I am already logged in, so I got nowhere. Sorry. |
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jjmckenzie51
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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| neofuddled wrote: | | I don't know how to create an issue. If you mean Bugzilla, I tried to post there and it wants me to log in. But I am already logged in, so I got nowhere. Sorry. |
Neobefuddled:
The fora server at Trinity and the BugZilla are two different machines. You will have to create a second login so that you can post the issue.
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sheepfun
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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Neofuddled, and as there sometimes were problems with that, another hint for bugzilla might be useful: if the bugzilla registration mail does not arrive at the mail adress you put there, please have a look into your mailprogs spam folder ... (that hit me, too, when I created my bugzilla account)
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jakeOSX
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i suspect that some of Word's "helpful" formatting stayed with the document.
If it is a document of just text, then if you copy all of it and do a 'paste special' as 'plain text' no formatting will follow the text.
I have to do this even in Word itself.
If there is charts and pictures and things, you may still try it, but the non text parts will not follow.
-j |
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neofuddled
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:09 am Post subject: |
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I filed a BugZilla report and learned that this is a known OpenOffice issue.
Paste special > unformatted text was the first thing I did. It did not work. However, I have just learned (thank you, Thomas) that if the unformatted text is pasted special into a new/blank document the tabs act normal.
Thanks to all. |
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sheepfun
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| Neofuddled, bugzilla does not say it is a KNOWN bug in Openoffice, it just is a bug there. Jake, as you reported this as a behavior of some MSWord -created documents known even within MSWord - does it make sense to file a bug in Openoffice (within NeoBugzilla its: http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=1366, see there for an example document)? |
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Glenner
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| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| Neofuddled, can you eliminate just the tabs by using IanNz's (http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/) search macro? There is also a nice little application (shareware) called Apimac Clean Text that lets you clean texts, emails etc from specific formatting items. |
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neofuddled
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| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:43 am Post subject: |
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| Glenner, thanks for the thought, but in a previous post I was warned that installing a macro is "not for the faint of heart," so I believe I will pass on that suggestion, at least until my heart becomes a little stouter. |
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Glenner
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| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:53 am Post subject: |
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It is not that difficult, but o.k. Come back if you would like more help after you have gathered full strength ' ' |
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