
Chapter 3: Managing Text Documents With Writer
Choose Edit > Paste Special to open the Paste Special dialogue which has several
options from which to choose. The same options can also be found on the submenu of
the Paste icon on the Standard toolbar:
Options Is inserted as...
“Calc”
OLE object — as with Ctrl(V) or drag-and-drop
GDI metaFile Graphic
Bitmap Graphic
HTML (HyperText
Markup Language)
A HTML table.
Formatted text [RTF] A standard OpenOffice.org Writer table object
DDE link (only under
Windows®)
Table structure and contents, without formatting. With
updating.
Unformatted text Plain text with Tab delimiters
Inserting from OpenOffice.org Calc using drag-and-drop
Open the text document and the Calc document from which to insert a range of cells.
1. Highlight the range of cells from the spreadsheet that should be in the document.
2. Click in this selected range of cells and hold down the mouse button. Wait a moment until
the cursor changes.
1. Without releasing the mouse button, drag the selected range of cells into the text
document. Should the text document not be visible, first move the mouse pointer to the
text document icon on the task bar and wait a moment until the text document opens. In
the text document, a gray insertion cursor follows the mouse pointer to the location of
where the table is to be placed.
3. Release the mouse button when the gray insertion cursor is at the location where the table
is to be inserted.
Deleting Tables
When deleting a whole table from a text document, the user has the following options:
1. By paragraph:
a) Select from the end of the paragraph before the table to the start of the paragraph after
the table.
b) Press (Del) or Backspace.
2. By table:
a) Place the cursor in the table.
b) select all cells, for example by pressing (Ctrl+a)
c) open the context menu.
d) select Row > Delete.
Note: Method 2 (by table) also works at the beginning or end of a document.
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