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

Brian C. dvorak at omnigroup.com
Thu Jan 6 11:51:31 PST 2005


I think that you can do what you're looking for here by setting the 
"spaces per level" setting in the Text export preferences to "0". Is 
that what you were after?

Sincerely,

Brian C.
Support Manager
Omni Group


On Jan 6, 2005, at 6:21 AM, Jeremy Reichman wrote:

> 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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