Copying Pasting in Libre Writer

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#1

Hi All,

I choose Select all or do Ctrl/A, then copy a Web site of text and live
links inot Writer and it appears with blue background so it's difficult to
read.

If I copy/Paste Special it loses the live links.

There are no photos or other graphics on the page.

I wanted to edit the text so I dind;t want to print it as a pdf.

Thanks.

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#2

Hi All,

I choose Select all or do Ctrl/A, then copy a Web site of text and live
links inot Writer and it appears with blue background so it's difficult to
read.

That depends on the website being copied...

If I copy/Paste Special it loses the live links.

There are no photos or other graphics on the page.

that should not be a problem.....

I wanted to edit the text so I dind;t want to print it as a pdf.

--- because you only want to edit text?

or, am i missing something now?

Thanks.

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#3

Hi Charles,

I am having difficulty reproducing your issue. Can you provide a link to
an example web page and let us know your OS and LO version?

Regards
Dave

#4

With a typical web site I see no such problem. Did you examine the page source? What URL?

#5

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On 4/13/2020 12:12 PM, charles meyer wrote:

Hi All,

I choose Select all or do Ctrl/A, then copy a Web site of text and live
links inot Writer and it appears with blue background so it's difficult to
read.

If I copy/Paste Special it loses the live links.

There are no photos or other graphics on the page.

I wanted to edit the text so I dind;t want to print it as a pdf.

Thanks.

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For that particular website, you may need to use another method to select what you want to copy from the website, such as using the left-mouse button to  drag the cursor across the content to select it.  I often find that I get better results copying parts of the webpage at a time, skipping objects that I don't really want.

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#6

Another option is to place the cursor at the beginning of the text to
copy (may be select the first word with the mouse) and then shift-click
at the end so you don't copy all the other stuff in the page.
Some times it also works better starting from the end of the text and
shift-click at the beginning.
Steve