I am trying to copy a formatted manuscript in Libre Writer and pasting it into an email. It keeps losing the formatting. For instance, I have the manuscript set to double space, .5 inch indent. When I paste it into an email program, it loses the formatting and either goes to single space and/or loses the indent. The email program I use (Windows Mail) doesn’t have where I can adjust the formatting. Can anyone help please? Thanks.
My experience is that depending on the emailing system, all or some formatting of any formatted document will be taken or get lost.
Therefore, if Windows Mail looses a format created in Writer, the loss is caused by Windows Mail. You need to look into Window Mail settings and see what kind of formats can be taken.
Whenever I need to send a formatted information, be it a text or something else, I create my document in LIbO, export it to pdf, and send the pdf-file as an attachment to an email. This is in my opinion the only way to be sure that the format gets transmitted.
Alternatively, save to HTML, close the file, re-open HTML version (in LO or browser), and then perform copy/paste. HTML uses different formatting from ODF.
Thank you, ROSt52. I just saved a very short manuscript to HTML (instead of my usual .doc), copy and pasted it into an email. It still didn’t keep the formatting, but in the email program, I now changed the format to Normal and it worked. I can’t do PDF as an attachment, since most editors (if they want attachments), want .doc as an attachment. That I have no problem with. It was the copying and pasting into the body of the email.
In Microsoft Word, I was able to state in the options if I wanted to keep the formatting from the source or change the formatting to match the destination. In LibreOffice Write I don’t see where there is that option. If there is this option in LIbre Office Write, can someone tell me where it is?
Have a look under Tools > Options > Load/Save > HTML Compatibility. Adjusting some of the settings there may help with the initial export to HTML. Copy/paste into external applications has been problematic for a long time. This may be related to the fact that LO is cross-platform.
So it’s not totally me with the problem. 
Thank you! I like LO a lot, but am so used to Microsoft’s word processor.