[SLUG] Re: How remove boxes round open office rows of, text?

[Pete]

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>>On Sunday 07 August 2005 12:15, Richard Lung wrote:
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>>>I scanned some pages onto Word at the library.
>>>Opening the document with Open office ( as an OCR document ) every row of
>>>text is closed in a box of straight lines. How do I remove the boxes, so
>>>I can edit the rows normally as one body of text?
>>>The select all and copy functions dont work in the boxed mode.
>>>There's no other progam the text will transfer to, to do the editing.On 
>>>
>>Sunday 07 Aug 2005 13:50, pete at predwood.charitydays.co.uk wrote:
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>>Open Office translates Word documents that have been scanned rather
>>differently. Better to save them as 'text' (.txt) in the first instance
>>rather than Word's Rich Text Format (.rtf)
>>To get out of it now, from Open Office, save the document as text, re-open
>>the saved version and then save it again in Open Office format (or Word if
>>you must). You will loose any formatting but chances are that it has been
>>junked anyway. If you have set up styles (press F11 to bring up the most
>>common ones) it should be a fairly straightford process to click on each
>>paragraph to re-format.
>>
>>Pete Redwood
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>Thankyou Peter,
>With your help and after much time-wasting,
>I found the only way I could avoid the boxed lines from opening a Word 
>document with Open office, was to right click on the original Word document
>and select Open with... from the menu. From the Open with... panel, select 
>More applications to Editers to kwrite. This way produced the text that could 
>be selected and copied to paste in Open Office and be edited freely. ( The 
>kwrite file itself couldnt be saved but wasnt needed. )
>I couldnt make work the alternative route of Save As... text, or in whatever 
>other alternative, from Open Office.
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>Richard Lung.
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> Glad you solved it eventually. You may also encounter problems with 
> Open Office Writer if you try to cut and paste bits from web pages. It 
> appears to work first time but Open Office will forever recognise it 
> as a link to the original web page and will not open up again until it 
> can look up the original - a pain if, like me, you're on dial up. 
> AbiWord doesn't seem to suffer from any of these problems and opens up 
> far quicker than Open Office. For the same reason, I tend to use 
> Gnumeric spreadsheet in preference to Open Office Calc - less 
> sophisticated but far quicker.

Regards
Pete.

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