On Nov 8, 2010, at 23:00 , Brian Barker wrote: > At 19:59 08/11/2010 +0100, James Wilde wrote: >> Mac OSX 10.6.4 OOo 3.2.1 >> >> I can paste with the format applicable at the point of entry if I use >> Cmd+Alt+Shift+V, as opposed to Cmd+V which pastes the incoming text in the >> format from which it came. > > I'm slightly surprised by this. The Windows keyboard shortcut is > Ctrl+Shift+V, so I'd imagine the Mac one would be Cmd+Shift+V - with no Alt. >
On my Mac the keyboard shortcut Cmd+Shift+V brings up the Paste Special window where I can choose between Formatted Text (RTF) and Unformatted Text. That's an extra manoeuvre and less effective. I got the Cmd+Alt+Shift+V from an aside in a message here a few weeks ago, and that goes straight to the pasting of unformatted text. I've used it successfully ever since. Unfortunately I've not been able to find the reference and don't remember what the thread concerned. And to add to the problem, it could have been over on the new LibO site. :( (Come to think of it, I think I'll throw the question at them, too.) >> I'd like to make the pasting of unformatted text the default, and either >> reverse the system so that Cmd+Alt+Shift+V uses the formatting at the >> origin, ... > > I have version 3.1.1 for Windows XP, so you may have to work out how all this > applies to your Mac version. > > You can change the effect of keyboard shortcuts at Tools | Customize... | > Keyboard. Under Functions | Category, select Edit. Under Functions | > Function, select Paste or Paste Special, as the case may be. Under "Shortcut > keys", now select the key combination you wish to be assigned to this > function. Click Modify to make the change. RTB STM BTTS! I can even go back into Tools/Customize/Keyboard and see that beside Cmd+V it says Paste Unformatted Text (unformatted text was suddenly one of the options under the Edit category) but just the same it doesn't do it. I've also tried modifying my macro from being a macro of clicking the Edit/Paste Special/Unformatted Text/OK to being Cmd+Alt+Shift+V, but it still doesn't work. > > Note that at the top right of the Customize panel you can choose whether you > wish the shortcut to apply to OpenOffice generally or only in Writer, Calc, > and so on. ... Got that. It's just Writer I need to change. I use it so often there. In Calc I can put up with the four-key "shortcut". > > Note also that Paste Special does not paste unformatted, but merely gives you > this choice as a separate step in its dialogue box. I don't know any way to > avoid that. Got that, too. > > I trust this helps. Unlike most of your input, Brian, unfortunately not. At least not yet. :( //James
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