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

At 16:25 26/10/2014 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote:
> 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
>
> What about using paste special the "Unformatted text" option after 
> creating the paragraph style you want?

I'm not sure how that helps. In any case, the questioner originally 
said he wanted to retain elements of formatting in the copied text.

Brian Barker 


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