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

I don't know what is so difficult or time consuming. And I certainly don't agree with 
typing it in versus copying and pasting. IMHO, you would have to be an extremely fast 
typist to accomplish what I just finished by typing everything in. I had 10 separate, 
old spreadsheets from 10 graduating classes from my high school. I copied and pasted 
that information - names, spouses names, full mailing addresses, landline phone, cell 
phone and email addresses. Actually, most of these were not in spreadsheet form. Most 
were in Word form, some in Word tables, some were hard copies I scanned in, etc.
I entered all of those into one large spreadsheet, exactly 500 names long, by copying 
and pasting - unformatted text. Now, there is a little easier, quicker way to do the 
paste - rather than using the key commands or the Edit Menu. If you use the standard 
Toolbar there is an icon for cut, copy, & paste. Beside the Paste icon is a down 
arrow. Click the down arrow and select "unformatted text", and it pastes unformatted 
text. That's the way I do it and I think that's pretty dang simple, and I know it was 
faster than I could have typed all that info in. I know I wouldn't win any typing 
speed contests, but then I'm not a slouch either.
You could use the Macro by assigning it to something like Ctrl+U, as suggested 
elsewhere, but since I would already be using my mouse to select the text, I think 
clicking the Paste Icon Down Arrow on the toolbar would be just as easy and just as 
fast as letting go of the mouse and hitting Ctrl+U. Hmmmmmmm.
Roxy



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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