https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170173
Bug ID: 170173
Summary: TABLES: on pasting copied material into a table cell,
paragraph properties must not be copied
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 25.2.1.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
I format a paragraph with a style, e.g. as a numbered list. I copy a substring
of that paragraph into an empty table cell. This cell is now formatted with the
paragraph style of the source. Instead, the style by which the table cell had
been formatted (e.g. 'Table Contents') should be preserved.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Format a paragraph with a style, e.g. as numbered list.
2. Format the cells of a table as 'Table Contents'.
3. Copy a substring of the styled paragraph and paste it into an empty table
cell.
Actual Results:
The table cell assumes the style of the source paragraph. In the example, it
becomes a row of a numbered list.
Expected Results:
The style by which the table cell was formatted should prevail.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: Yes
Additional Info:
One unwanted consequence of this bug appears in the conversion of a tabulated
paragraph into a table (Table - Convert - Text to table - Separate text at
Tabs): If the paragraph to be converted is one of a numbered list, every cell
of the table thus produced is then numbered.
The error is more general: Upon copying a substring from any source paragraph
into any target paragraph, the style applied to the source paragraph _must not_
even be included in the copy operation - let alone in the paste operation. It
is not the purpose of a paste operation to destroy the style valid for its
target.
This bug has been present from the very first versions of LO Writer. I had
reported it years ago; but it was ignored. It causes much additional
reformatting work in writing.
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