Re: [libreoffice-users] Tab defaults change when pasting into Writer from some other applications

At 13:51 26/10/2014 -0400, Tim Deaton wrote:
> I'm currently running LO v4.2.6.3 on Windows 7, 64-bit, SP1.
>
> I use Writer primarily to create notes for Bible study lessons. In 
> that process, I often copy text into Writer from other programs 
> (most likely e-Sword and TheWord (two free Bible software programs 
> which, I think, both use the SQLite open-source database 
> program).  The template I use for this has the default tab-stop 
> setting (Tools|Options|LO Writer|General) set to 0.25 inch.
>
> My problem is that when copying text passages from those (and 
> perhaps other) programs into LO, that default tab-stop gets reset to 
> 0.5 inch, so that I have to go into the Options to change it back 
> after each copy/paste.  I don't know when exactly this behavior 
> started, but I do know this resetting did not happen when I was 
> using OOo and then LO 3.x.  It either started with LO 4.0 or 4.1.

I'm not sure why you would want to use default tab stops at all. They 
are so close that you often need to add multiple consecutive tab 
characters, and this is surely a recipe for your documents being 
fragile and not robust to changes of font, paper size, printer, 
platform, and so on? Tab stops are a property of paragraph styles. 
Why not set up a paragraph style with just the tab stops you actually 
need and then apply this style to the text (very easily done) 
immediately after pasting?

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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