Dotan Cohen wrote:

> On 12 March 2010 00:51, Bob Long <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Dotan,
>>
>>> Do other people paste from outside OOo to within OOo on a regular
>>> basis? Do you have problems with text formatting (specifically, the
>>> fact that formatting is preseved)? I filed an issue for a feature
>>> request to let the user select Format Unformatted Text be the default
>>> paste option, however, it does not seem to be progressing:
>>> http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=103327
>>>
>>> Based on the use cases that I've seen, I expected this to be a popular
>>> feature. Is no one else interested in it? I am only asking to gauge
>>> other user's opinions of the need for such a feature.
>>
>> It is in fact possible to add your own item for "Paste Unformatted Text"
>> onto a toolbar. I'm doing this in Windows, OOo 3.2, Writer. Edit: see final
>> paragraph.
>>
>> Tools|Customise|Toolbars (the tab) and select, say, "Standard" toolbar.
>> You'll see below that a list of icons that are currently displayed on the
>> toolbar (those with ticks). But there is not one there for "Paste
>> Unformatted".
>>
>> So click "Add..." button, select Category "Edit" from left column, then
>> select "Paste Unformatted Text" from right column|Add|Close. It will add it
>> to the list of Toolbar commands. You can move it to the position you want
>> with the up/down arrows there. By default, it does not have an icon
>> associated with it, but you can change that by selecting the command and
>> using "Modify"|"Change Icon...".
>>
>> Hmmm... I just read the bug report after writing the above and there it
>> mentions you are interested in Calc, not Writer. The same customise process
>> does not work... the closest I could get was to adding a "Paste Special"
>> icon, which then brings up an option of "Unformatted text", requiring some
>> more mouse clicks.
>>
> 
> In any case, as a keyboard user, I prefer keyboard accelerators for
> pasting, not just toolbar icons. It is an accessibility issue for me,
> as I have trouble with the mouse.
There is a shortcut for "paste unformatted" since 3.2 or 3.1 (I don't
remember exactly). By default it's "SHIFT-CTRL-ALT-V" (IIRC that was
requested by Mac users), but as always it can be changed to your liking.

Regards,
Mathias

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