Issue 25759 - Copy / Paste from web page behaviour
Summary: Copy / Paste from web page behaviour
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 5963
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Assignee: bettina.haberer
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2004-02-21 06:21 UTC by edimck
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:41 UTC (History)
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Description edimck 2004-02-21 06:21:56 UTC 
As a user switching from Microsoft Word, I find the behaviour of "paste" from 
a web page inconvenient. In Word, paste by default pastes unformatted text. In 
OOo1.1 the default is html format, so even plain text from a web page gets 
pasted as a table. The workaround is to use "paste special".

So, two suggestions for usability:
1) Change the default paste mode to unformatted text (or provide an preference 
option)
or
2) Add Paste Special to the right mouse button as it has to be used quite often
Comment 1 rblackeagle 2004-02-21 14:17:21 UTC 
Yes!  Please change the default paste, but without losing the other options
(sometimes, but not often, they are best).  Sorry, no votes left.
Comment 2 jack.warchold 2004-02-25 14:32:08 UTC 
reassigend to bh
Comment 3 jlrowe 2005-01-05 13:31:20 UTC 
I'd like to comment on thie issue.
1. I was never a big user of MS Word. Instead, I have used a wide variety of
text programs over the years, MS Word being just one.
2. Hence, I am OK with the default, so long as an alternative paste is
available. It probably should be available in OO. Past as unformatted text. But
here is the first workaround: Use Firefox or Mozilla web browsers. Then add the
extensions 'Copy as Plain Text' or 'Copy URL+' or both if you like. Then when
you highlight, just right click and choose one of these.
Second work around: Paste into notepad, then highlight and copy from there to
OO. That will strip the formatting.
3. I actually *like* pasting as formatted text as it give me a good
representation with links and everything. HOWEVER, it insists on pasting
pictures and graphics linked from the websites. That means it may seem to hang
while it tries to read in the graphics. If you are on dialup (I am) then more
so. Then, it does not keep the graphics, but must re-read them from time to
time. I solve this by manually deleting or doing a screen capture of each
individual graphic and pasting it over the linked graphic thus making it a local
rather than remote image.
4. The last annoying thing is the actual crashes that occur from pasting.
See ISSUE# 39959 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=39959
Comment 4 edgimar 2005-07-15 13:56:02 UTC 
How about an option to allow the user to decide what the default action is?  Then everybody's happy.
Comment 5 stp 2006-03-10 08:47:44 UTC 
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*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 5963 ***
Comment 6 stp 2006-03-10 08:49:38 UTC 
closed