My knowledge of the processes involved is limited to my personal experience, but I see that when I copy from a spreadsheet and paste special, the dialog box limits the format that is pasted, but does not allow the removal of all formatting. When I paste to gedit then copy from gedit and paste special, the 'unformatted text' option is presented (as this was the only option presented, I presumed that gedit removed the formatting). This text is converted into the proper format when it is pasted into a properly formatted cell. I have not tried to do a simple paste to see if the formatting is still present, as you suggest. In my case, being able to strip the formatting from the entry is the primary goal as that allows the data to be formatted according to its function (date and time, date, time, number). All previous attempts failed because the formatting remained attached to the entry. Manually removing the formatting mark from each entry, one entry at a time, was prohibitively time consuming.
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