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

Again, I don't have, nor never had the problem you talk about of where your copied 
material gets pasted. If I am copying, say, an address from a web page to a 
spreadsheet, I select and copy the material from the web page. Usually, I have 
already selected the cell in the spreadsheet where I want it to go and this has 
"highlighted" that cell - bolded its outline. When I "move" to the spreadsheet that 
cell is still selected. I then use Paste Special > Unformatted Text and whatever I 
copied from the web page falls right into the cell that I had previously selected. I 
really don't know how you could make that any simpler. I have been doing this type 
thing over and over and over for well over 10 years and have never had the problem 
you state - and that goes all the way back to Win98 and before. You could use just 
Paste, but you have the possibility off bringing along web formatting that you are 
not aware of and could become quite a hassle down the road in your spreadsheet. As 
you can see when you use Paste Special there can be up to 3 or 4 different ways to 
paste. To do this in one step they would have to add a "button" for each of those 
ways of pasting.
To really see the difference each one of those options in Paste Special makes open a 
new document on your desktop. Then select a half page or so of material from a web 
page. Then use Paste Special and the first option to paste that material. Then hit 
Undo. Then use Paste Special again with the second option to paste the same material 
again. Then Undo again. Do this for each option available in Paste Special. Then 
think about what you might be pasting into, say, a spreadsheet by not using these 
options to Paste Special. And they will most likely by "unseen". I did not realize 
the full capabilities of Paste Special - and why my material sometimes looked so 
"funky" - until I did this exact thing several years ago.
Roxy


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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