I have over a dozen books that have been translated into French and now need to lay out and format them. The problem of showing “Converted ###” as the page style due to multiple MS/LO conversions. The recommended solution is to copy UNFORMATTED text into a blank Writer doc. The problem is that CONVERTED ### page styles copy over as well. Is there a way to apply DEFAULT PAGE STYLE globally to all of the originating doc before copying unformatted text over to the new Writer doc? Currently I can only apply page styles one page at a time. And will this cure the problem of transferring the CONVERTED ### PAGE STYLES to the new doc?
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Pasting as unformatted text does not import any style, be it paragraph, character or page.
If some Converted999 leaks through, then you did not paste unformatted or you started from a copy of your original document with contents removed (which does not clear the style dictionary).
You can indeed apply Default Page Style over your whole initial document but this will not solve the problem of inserted page breaks to switch to the various Converted999 styles.
This is a consequence of the multiple conversions. Your book has only very few different parts, say cover, dedication, TOC, chapters which only call for 4 page styles.
PS: when asking here, always mention OS name, LO version and save format (.doc(x) according to your question, at least originally).
Thanks for the direction. I’m on Windows 11, using LO 7.6 and docx.
“…you did not paste unformatted or you started from a copy of your original document with contents removed (which does not clear the style dictionary).”
Not sure what I’m missing. Ctl+A to cover the entire doc, then CLEAR DIRECT FORMATTING. Does this make the text unformatted or is there another function to use? I pasted onto a clean NEW Writer doc.
This does not turn your contents unformatted. It keeps paragraph and character styles in text, only removing manually added formatting. It has strictly no action on lists and pages.
To get an unformatted instance of your document, Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C. The document is now in the clipboard.
Open a blank new document and Ctrl+Shift+Alt+V (or menu Edit>Paste Special>Paste Unformatted Text).
Note the additional modifiers during paste. If these extra modifiers are not present, styles are also pasted.
Brilliant! This cured my problem and saves hours/days of work. Thanks!
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