I pasted a list of titles from an email message into Writer using Paste Special for unformatted text. I began editing this document as I have done numerous times before with similar lists using an established procedure that has always worked just fine. After making one or two changes, I save the document as odt so that the edits aren’t lost if disaster strikes. After the first two edits and save, I was able to move around the document and select text using arrows. These edits were made using ctrl/H. Then I deleted some text from the end of each line, using arrows to navigate and the delete key. After saving that edit, all lines below the first now seem to be separated somehow. If the cursor is located on the first line of the document, Select All selects the entire document. If the cursor is located on any subsequent line, Select All selects only that line. It’s not possible to navigate between lines using the arrow keys. There are extraneous line feeds in between a few lines that I can’t delete.
I cannot retrieve the original list from the original source to start over. I need to correct this document into a plain list of titles so that I can convert it to a table.
I am using LO 7.3.7.2 on Ubuntu 22.04.
EDIT: After experimenting I’ve found that each line of the list is now considered a table. If I select a line as a table and convert table to text, then I can move between lines and select text with the arrows.
However there are about 50 lines that need to be converted. Is there any way to do this conversion other than selecting and converting line by line?
You might be in a table already. Click Ctrl+A once to select the contents of a cell, twice to select the table, three times to select everything.
- Select all tables, including one empty (or not) paragraph at the top and one paragraph at the bottom.
- Copy.
- Paste as Rich text formatting (RTF).
Tested with:
Version: 24.8.5.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 480(Build:2)
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: es-MX (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded