Open Office text question

Quote by H2O
I use Open Office for writing my stories. I have some dating back to 2006 and one in particular that won't transfer here with paragraphs intact. I copy and paste but the editing vanishes. It's 12 pages long and I would really hate to walk through the entire document to put in the spaces. I've tried Text format, Word 97/2000, and their default setting and they all paste the same way. Two other stories I've posted haven't had that problem. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

I had this problem using Word. Apparently, they have hidden coding in them that sends the submission formatting crazy.

Another writer told me that they copy their document, paste it into a Lush private message with their own name in the recipient box, and send it.

I tried that, and it worked. All you have to do after that is copy the sent message body, and paste into the submission form. Job done.

It means a few more mouse clicks, but it works for me!

I hope that helps?

Quote by H2O
I use Open Office for writing my stories. I have some dating back to 2006 and one in particular that won't transfer here with paragraphs intact. I copy and paste but the editing vanishes. It's 12 pages long and I would really hate to walk through the entire document to put in the spaces. I've tried Text format, Word 97/2000, and their default setting and they all paste the same way. Two other stories I've posted haven't had that problem. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Quote by 1ball


Try a different browser for the submit. Some browsers remove one line between paragraphs when they're written with notepad. I don't know why. Chrome and Firefox don't.

Quote by Shylass


I use Firefox, but not the notepad (I'm not sure what that is). My laptop has a habit of crashing, so I write in Word documents and save them as I go.