Re: [libreoffice-design] Usability comes from stability

On 10/05/11 11:17 PM, Christopher Stark wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I totally agree with most of what you say..
>
> concerning this one problem you have with pasting formated web-texts I
> think there is a better solution already implemented in LibreOffice.
>
>
> "On 5/10/2011 5:16 AM, Jim Fuqua wrote:
> >      As a lawyer I often type for hours per day. I often must copy and
> > paste into gedit and then copy and paste into LibreOffice to get rid
> > of multiple hyperlinks and other undesirable baggage present in the
> > source. Some web content providers add hundreds of links in legal
> > documents to make copying difficult. Some even include mechanisms to
> > crash MS Word or OpenOffice. I learned to copy into a primitive editor
> > and then into my word processor to strip out such baggage and avoid
> > such crashes. I haven't tried to see if the crash mechanisms will
> > crash LibreOffice, but I suspect they will. "
> You can use the shortcut Control+Shift+V to paste "special. There you
> can choose "unformatted text" and paste it without having to use the
> workaround with gedit. In my Libreoffice I created a macro that does the
> "paste without formatting" and assigned  a shortcut to that. This works
> fine!
>
> best Regards
> Christopher
In KDE if you select from the clip board (Klipper) before pasting all 
formatting is removed.
In Mac if you use Clyppan, a similar action occurs. Both make pasting 
cleaned text easy.
steve

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