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

Roxy Robinson <rocmar62@ranchwireless.com> writes:

> Again, I don't have, nor never had the problem you talk about of where
> your copied material gets pasted.

Then how did you make it so that it´s pasted at the cursor rather then
at the mouse pointer?

> 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.

Yes, the selected/highlighted cell would be the equivalent of the cursor
in writer.

> 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.

Having to go such a detour is exactly what makes pasting in LO so
troublesome that I rather type for copying over some short lines of text
than pasting them. It´s annoying that I have to type them, and it would
be even more annoying if I had to go through the lengthy, awful
procedure of going through the menu and through the pop-up window and
through selecting a way to paste and to click on ok to finally(!) get
the text pasted. I tried it, and it sucks, so I type instead.

Why can´t one just set a default way of pasting instead of having to
choose one each and every time just because the unchangeable default of
LO is 99.99999% of the time not what one wants?

> I really don't know how you could make that any simpler.

See <87pqm87kth.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de>:

,----
| 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.
`----

That´s how I paste all the time, LO being the exception. There aren´t
any menus or pop-up windows to select different ways to paste from
involved. It´s only two mouse clicks, and I don´t need to switch between
trackball and keyboard.

LO makes it difficult and very inefficient. If you just paste as always,
you screw up your document.

> 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

It´s probably because you don´t copy and paste with only two mouse
clicks. If you could just set a default way to paste instead of having
to select it each and every time you paste so that you could just mark
and paste with two mouse clicks, wouldn´t that save you a lot of work?

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