https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166889
Bug ID: 166889
Summary: CLEAR ALL / RESET FORMATTING, except paragraph
(default, body text)
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 25.8.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
hi,
We can clear direct formatting. Cool!
We can "reset" character styles by assigning "no character style". Very cool!
But there could be a "third level" of clearing text:
"Clear ALL Formatting." Styles included!
HOW:
imagine text in a paragraph
imagine that
you select it all
copy it
then paste it "back", overwriting the selected paragraph.
imagine that this "pasting back" happens NOT by "CRTL+V"
but by "CRT+SHIFT+ALT+V" ... which means:
paste as non-formatted plain text.
Only paragraphs exist,
and they would have the document's default paragraph style, body text.
::::::
Why would this be useful?
Because documents get messed up by course of time if you're editing it.
Messed up: I only mean the source code, the "content.xml" in the zip file.
Thank God, Libreoffice keeps the document clean and healthy, whatever happens
down beneath the surface.
But the cleanness of the "source text" is very important,
cause, for example, using Scribus, when you import a Writer document,
it will be messed up: missing spaces between words, which makes it all
non-usable.
I mean, the cleanness of the source text is, I'm sure, a priority.
Giving a tool to Writer users by which they can get a totally clean
document, without any inherited glitch, would be a great achievement.
* * * * thank you for developing Libreoffice and Writer !! * * * * * *
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