Turn spreadsheet back to a text document

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Patty Nelson94
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Turn spreadsheet back to a text document

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:!: (I TYPE IN CAPS ... NOT BECAUSE I AM YELLING OR MAD... IT IS BECAUSE I HAVE VERY POOR EYESIGHT AND THE CAPS MAKE IT EASIER TO READ... THANK YOU) MY PROBLEM... I HAVE A VERY LONG DOCUMENT THAT I MUST HAVE CLICKED A WRONG BUTTON... :? BECAUSE WHEN I OPENED IT ABOUT A MONTH AGO IT WAS NOW A SPREADSHEET BUT IT WAS NOT IN THE COLUMN, IT WAS JUST SETTING ON TOP... TRIED TO COPY AND PAST BUT THEN THE COLUMN CAME WITH IT... TRIED TO PUT THE TEXT INTO COLUMNS... DID NOT WORK... :shock: THE INFORMATION IS VERY IMPORTANT... IT CONTAINS MEDICAL, SCHOOLING, BIRTHDATES AND DEATHS OF FAMILY, SO THIS IS WHAT I NEED TO DO..... :cry:

REMOVE SPREADSHEET FROM BACKGROUND LEAVING TEXT... :D
OR
REMOVE TEXT FROM SPREADSHEET LEAVING THE TEXT FREE TO BE PUT BACK ON A DOCUMENT... :bravo:

ANY HELP WOULD BE SO VERY HELPFULL :D
THANK YOU
OPENOFFICE 4.14 ON WINDOWS 10
Bill
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Re: TURN SPREAD SHEET BACK TO A TEXT DOCUMENT

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I don't know of any button that would turn a text document into a spreadsheet. Does the title bar say "OpenOffice Writer" or "OpenOfficeCalc"? If it says "OpenOffice Writer" maybe you converted the text into a table. Without a picture of the document or the actual document, I can only guess what you might have done.
AOO 4.1.14 on Ubuntu MATE 22.04
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