At 16:50 07/03/2009 -0500, Sean Noname wrote:
Um. I don't QUITE get that. Paste "special"? Because it was plain text I was after, what is the "special" part about it?
Simply that the Paste Special command allows alternative methods of pasting to the default. (And yes: it's plain text that you *want*, but not plain text that you have copied; that's exactly the problem.)
Indeed I haven't TRIED this method yet, I will have to in the near future. Then again I would ask if it can be assigned to the tried and true Control-C / Control-V sequence used for copy/paste standard (that is, standard for many applications, but not for everything. I believe I found this out with emacs.)
You could, but it would probably be more sensible to use the default keyboard shortcut. If you changed Ctrl+V to Paste Special, what would you then use for normal Paste?
As I said, if this can be mapped to Control-C / Control-V then I have it made. Otherwise, knowing the shortcut would be helpful.
You must not have read my earlier reply! I quote:
... use Edit | Paste Special... (or right-click | Paste Special... or Ctrl+Shift+V) instead of ordinary Paste.
It seems I have to re-learn this if I'm to stick with OOo Writer.
This is learning, not *re-*learning. Use ordinary Paste when you want the default action and Paste Special when you want the extra tricks. In this special case, you need Paste Special.
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