Lines without outline formatting (bullets, etc.) on export

Jeremy Reichman jaharmi at mac.com
Thu Jan 6 06:21:46 PST 2005


Is there a way, current with OO 2 or 3 (which is apparently released now),
to use copy-paste or export to create outline rows without outline
formatting? I feel like I'm flailing trying to explain this.

Perhaps I can do this visually, with the following text snippet of an
outline in OO 3 beta:

*** [snip]
- ITS security agent
- Requirements meeting
-
- Tuesday, January 4, 2005
-
- Where we stand
    - Get buy-in from CIO
*** [snip]


I take meeting notes in this outline format all the time, and everyone
always wants them e-mailed to the group. It would save me time if I could
define some way that, when I copy and paste this outline, I instead get
plain text that looks like:


*** [snip]
ITS security agent
Requirements meeting

Tuesday, January 4, 2005

- Where we stand
    - Get buy-in from CIO
*** [snip]


Since I'm pasting into Entourage 2004 and have previously posted about my
problems with OO to Erage copy-paste resulting in styled RTF text in a mail
message, I could obviously add some steps to my cleanup routine (where I
drop to the Terminal and use `pbpaste | pbcopy` to strip the styled text
data on the pasteboard). A quick awk script would clean the outline lines up
for me.

However, I'd like to be able to define rows that act like headings or
old-style memo fields or something, and that are treated differently on
export and/or copy-paste into other apps. I'd like them to be something
other than outline rows.

Is this possible now, especially with the styling features of OO 3?

Thanks!


--
Jeremy





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