Roxy Robinson <[email protected]> writes: > Again, I don't have, nor never had the problem you talk about of where > your copied material gets pasted.
Then how did you make it so that it´s pasted at the cursor rather then at the mouse pointer? > If I am copying, say, an address from a web page to a spreadsheet, I > select and copy the material from the web page. Usually, I have > already selected the cell in the spreadsheet where I want it to go and > this has "highlighted" that cell - bolded its outline. When I "move" > to the spreadsheet that cell is still selected. Yes, the selected/highlighted cell would be the equivalent of the cursor in writer. > I then use Paste Special > Unformatted Text and whatever I copied from > the web page falls right into the cell that I had previously > selected. Having to go such a detour is exactly what makes pasting in LO so troublesome that I rather type for copying over some short lines of text than pasting them. It´s annoying that I have to type them, and it would be even more annoying if I had to go through the lengthy, awful procedure of going through the menu and through the pop-up window and through selecting a way to paste and to click on ok to finally(!) get the text pasted. I tried it, and it sucks, so I type instead. Why can´t one just set a default way of pasting instead of having to choose one each and every time just because the unchangeable default of LO is 99.99999% of the time not what one wants? > I really don't know how you could make that any simpler. See <[email protected]>: ,---- | 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. `---- That´s how I paste all the time, LO being the exception. There aren´t any menus or pop-up windows to select different ways to paste from involved. It´s only two mouse clicks, and I don´t need to switch between trackball and keyboard. LO makes it difficult and very inefficient. If you just paste as always, you screw up your document. > I have been doing this type thing over and over and over for well over > 10 years and have never had the problem you state It´s probably because you don´t copy and paste with only two mouse clicks. If you could just set a default way to paste instead of having to select it each and every time you paste so that you could just mark and paste with two mouse clicks, wouldn´t that save you a lot of work? -- 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
