Not quite done --

[kinzel]

Somehow I have managed to, on several occasions, insert strange, apparently unremovable lines into my OpenOffice documents. Annoying, distracting lines that return even after a cut-and-paste...

Gah...

I offer that for not getting the draft done last night... spent mor ethan an hour saying "this ought not be a problem" or something like ....

Meanwhile,
today's outrage: Looks like the the Coast Guard shows the Dept of Homeland Scruity how it's done:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.judges25jun25,0,1629483.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

So, the plan is to get this draft done after a timeline check. I'm 762 words shy of the minimum target...maybe I'll be able to get a celebratory milkshake for lunch.

Comments

[sraun]

Does OpenOffice support Paste Special, Unformatted Text?
You say the lines return - are they there immediately after the paste, or do they appear after you add some additional text (as little as a carriage return)? Could it be converting strings of dashes to lines?

[mardott.livejournal.com]

The Line has appeared in my MS Word docs, too. No clue how or why they show up; they're just suddenly there. I had about 3 of them in my manuscript at one point. I think I got rid of them by copying and pasting the entire thing into a new blank document. For whatever reason they appeared in the first place, they didn't copy over to the new document.

Will that be a chocolate milkshake? About what time are they being served? I'll bring extra ice cream...

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Odd...

it took a lot longer today than I thought; but I ended up at 2762 words on the day, and the draft is still rough. But it is a *finished* first draft, with a slew of notes about oughta/shoulda/maybe to be thunk over.

And normally I'm for a vanilla shake, assuming I can't get pumpkin or eggnog. I usually only try chocolate if I can get a test taste from a trusted adviser since an awful lot of chocolate shakes feel oily in my mouth or taste Hershey'd to death.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Sigh. I've had this happen in MS Word, too. As I recollect, I found that the line was associated with a paragraph marker at the end of a line (or maybe a page break?). Anyway, I couldn't get rid of it by itself, but copying ONLY TEXT allowed me to work around it by moving things to a new document. Not sure if it's the same problem or just the same symptoms, but I remember being very frustrated.

I think Scott may have something, too. I do seem to remember I had divided a paragraph with three dashes on a blank line or something, and then pop - I've got a line that I can't get rid of. Text editors that think they are smarter than users are a pain.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Yes,
it looks like something called a paragraph border...

sigh... it's a shame that these folks thought they need to match all the "functionality" of MS Word without considering the utility of it...