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[Graham Lauder <yorick_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 13 Oct 2010 14:15:57 Duaine Hechler wrote:
> Graham Lauder wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 Oct 2010 04:19:34 Duaine Hechler wrote:
> > > Graham Lauder wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 12 Oct 2010 12:05:59 Duaine Hechler wrote:
> > > > > Graham Lauder wrote:
> > > > > > On Tuesday 12 Oct 2010 03:50:12 Duaine Hechler wrote:
> > > > > > > I'm running the latest stable version of OO - 3.2.1 and in editing
> > > > > > > .html docs, how do I display the html source.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > View>HTML Source.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > However you have to be in writer/web mode and have saved the
> > > > > > document.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If you open an HTML file using the File Open dialogue OOo will
> > > > > > automatically open in web mode.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Cheers
> > > > > > GL
> > > > >
> > > > > All my documents are previously saved .html files with an earlier
> > > > > version of OOo and neither of the items above works.
> > > > >
> > > > > Duaine
> > > >
> > > > When you open them with OOo is there a "HTML Source" Item in the "View"
> > > > Menu.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > > GL
> > >
> > > No.
> >
> > OOo is very automagic when it comes to interpreting what's in a document.
> > Saving with an HTML tag on the end does not automatically make an HTML
> > file, you have to be in Writer/Web for it to produce HTML, not just "Web
> > Layout".
> >
> > If the "View>HTML Source" is not in the dropdown then OOo is seeing the
> > file as text only.
> >
> > So try this, open the file in OOo, do Ctrl+A > Ctrl+C
> >
> > Go to File > New > HTML document
> >
> > Ctrl+V or Paste the whole text into the new document.
> >
> > Then go to View > HTML Source
> >
> > If you now have the source, then the original document was saved as a
> > text document.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > GL
>
> WRONG, I've reinstalled 3.2.1 (uninstalled 3.2.1 -> installed 3.2.1)
> could not open ANYTHING.

OK now that's odd, I presume you're using openSUSE and I presume you're using 
the openSUSE version of OOo. 

> Installed 3.0.0.9, did the above procedure. At first I thought it worked
> however after I did a Save As and reopened the file, back to square one :'(

My apologies I missed one thing up there, when you do the paste do  "Paste 
Special" > Unformatted Text then you get rid of all the legacy junk in behind

> Something happened at least back to 3.0.0.9
>
> How far back do I need to go to fix this
>
> Duaine


What happens when you open the file with a browser and go "View source" from 
there?


If there is nothing particularly top secret about the documents, could you 
send me one of them so I can check it over for a bug.

Cheers
GL


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Graham Lauder,
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