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

On 10/26/2014 02:13 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
> 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
     What about using paste special  the "Unformated text" option after 
creating the paragraph style you want?

Dan

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