[plug] copy from web page to Star Office

[William Kenworthy]

copy&paste into an open abiword document.  Use the ctrl-ins key comb and
the click in staroffice and paste it using shift-ins (windoze fashion)

alt: redirect terminal command output into a temp file using ">" and
open in abiword (as unix text), format as fixed font before copying to
staroffice.  

Both these methods sound dumb but I could not open or paste a text
layout done with multiple spaces direct into staroffice without
formatting it to "courier new" font in abiword (SO loaded 2 or more
spaces as one, destroying the layout!) and then using the first method
to transfer the data!

I am using gnome, not kde, but should still work.

Love the presenter in SO though!

BillK

On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 14:33, craig at postnewspapers.com.au wrote:
> > Okay, here is a good one.  Can anyone tell me why I cannot copy content from 
> > a webpage in Konqueror to a Star Office document?  I've hightlighted the 
> > content click on copy and in StarOffice clicked on paste.  Nothing happens 
> > ... why?
> I've found that StarOffice _refuses_ to copy/paste to/from a terminal,
> too. It doesn't seem to even fill the X clipboard, on select or on
> "copy" command. Nor does it read from it on middle-click or "paste"
> command. Does it maintain its own independent and incompatable
> clipboard? Use the KDE clipboard (even when Enlightenment, not KDE, is running?)
> 
> It's been driving me nuts.
> 
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