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<pre wrap="">On Sunday 07 August 2005 12:15, Richard Lung wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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 </pre>
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<pre wrap="">Sunday 07 Aug 2005 13:50, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pete@predwood.charitydays.co.uk">pete@predwood.charitydays.co.uk</a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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
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Regards<br>
Pete.<br>
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