James Wilde <[email protected]> writes: > On Jun 20, 2011, at 09:23 , Stephan Zietsman wrote: > >> Roxy Robinson wrote: >>> From what I know you have to use Paste Special for what you want to do. >>> Paste Special >>> has several options that you must choose from, so you cannot "set it" to do >>> only one >> >> Just to elaborate: you can perform a "Paste Special" by pressing >> CTRL+SHIFT+V (instead of the regular paste, which is CTRL+V). There >> should then be an option "Unformatted text". > > And at least on the Mac you can press Cmd+Shift+Alt+V and the text will be > inserted at the cursor point in the format of the document you are pasting > to, not the format of the text in the document you took it from. This is > apparently not documented anywhere. Very useful. But I've not been able to > find a way to change the key combination to something simpler. If you're not > using a Mac, you can test Ctrl+Shift+Alt+V and maybe let us know. > > Presumably there is a key combination which would paste it in the format of > the originating document, but who on earth would want that? :)
To copy and paste some text, I move the mouse pointer over the text while pressing the left button. To paste, I move the mouse pointer over the window I want to paste into and press the middle button to have the text inserted where the cursor is. It is as simple and efficient as that. It doesn´t work with LO (and some other misdesigned applications) because the text isn´t inserted where the cursor is but, illogically, where the mouse pointer happens to be. It doesn´t work with LO in particular because attributes of the text are also pasted, and 99.99999% of the time I don´t want the attributes to be pasted. Having to go through menus and pop-up windows and having to select some options is way too much fuss and horribly inefficient. Switching back and forth between trackball and keyboard isn´t any better. It´s several short lines of text I need to get into my document from a page displayed in the web browser, i. e. a street address and a name or two, one after another. Since copy and paste is broken, I can only type them in, which is annoying and prone to errors. Can´t they just fix it so that copy and paste works as can be expected? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
