Re: [libreoffice-users] default type and setting for pasting

James Wilde <james.wilde@sunde-wilde.com> writes:

> On Jun 20, 2011, at 09:23 , Stephan Zietsman wrote:
>
> > Roxy Robinson wrote:
> > >  From what I know you have to use Paste Special for what you want to do. Paste Special
> > > has several options that you must choose from, so you cannot "set it" to do only one
> >
> > Just to elaborate:  you can perform a "Paste Special" by pressing
> > CTRL+SHIFT+V (instead of the regular paste, which is CTRL+V).  There
> > should then be an option "Unformatted text".
>
> And at least on the Mac you can press Cmd+Shift+Alt+V and the text will be inserted at the cursor 
> point in the format of the document you are pasting to, not the format of the text in the 
> document you took it from.  This is apparently not documented anywhere.  Very useful.  But I've 
> not been able to find a way to change the key combination to something simpler.  If you're not 
> using a Mac, you can test Ctrl+Shift+Alt+V and maybe let us know.
>
> Presumably there is a key combination which would paste it in the format of the originating 
> document, but who on earth would want that?  :)

To copy and paste some text, I move the mouse pointer over the text
while pressing the left button. To paste, I move the mouse pointer over
the window I want to paste into and press the middle button to have the
text inserted where the cursor is.

It is as simple and efficient as that. It doesn´t work with LO (and some
other misdesigned applications) because the text isn´t inserted where
the cursor is but, illogically, where the mouse pointer happens to
be. It doesn´t work with LO in particular because attributes of the text
are also pasted, and 99.99999% of the time I don´t want the attributes
to be pasted.

Having to go through menus and pop-up windows and having to select some
options is way too much fuss and horribly inefficient. Switching back
and forth between trackball and keyboard isn´t any better.

It´s several short lines of text I need to get into my document from a
page displayed in the web browser, i. e. a street address and a name or
two, one after another. Since copy and paste is broken, I can only type
them in, which is annoying and prone to errors.

Can´t they just fix it so that copy and paste works as can be expected?

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