Hi :) It is frustrating when things don't work the way you want. I think Word does exactly the same way, as does my rather bad email client. It's been this way for over a decade so people are just used to reformatting text nearer the end of working on a document. Certainly if you are touch-typing then it's easier to just type the headings and things in as standard text and then apply formatting throughout the document at the end.
I think you make good points and maybe it is time to approach the devs to get a more rational and up-to-date set of defaults for the standard Paste? Please post this as a wish-list item or feature request and post the url into here so that people can support your request. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: lee <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 21 June, 2011 9:24:04 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] default type and setting for pasting Roxy Robinson <[email protected]> writes: > As I have already stated several times, you practically already have what you >are > > asking for by using the down arrow next to the Paste Icon on the toolbar! 2 >clicks > > instead of one. You still don´t understand it. I would have to hit an arrow so tiny that, as you may have noticed, people --- yourself included, IIRC --- don´t even see it, which is straining and not anywhere near as fast and simple as the system-wide standard way of pasting which involves only two clicks and doesn´t require one to hit tiny arrows. Your way is two clicks more, not one, btw. Anyway, the button for pasting unformatted text in the toolbar makes it easy now. That doesn´t change that having the application pick something as default which is 99% of the time not what the users want and not allowing the users to set another default is bad design. Since LO breaks copying and pasting because there´s useful options involved with that, it makes it neccessary to be able to to set a default so that copying and pasting isn´t broken anymore and the additional options can still be used. That´s obvious and not hard to understand at all. -- 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 -- 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
