Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 58957
Copy Paste from IE to OO Writer Text does not work well
Last modified: 2005-12-11 22:43:06 UTC
When doing a Copy/Paste operation from Internet Explorer to Writer, it does not work well. It works for very small selections; for example: 1 sentence of text or one image; but does not work well for larger selections. Steps to Repeat Problem: 1. In IE, navigate to a URL with significant content. For example: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/ProcessScapeWeb.asp 2. Select all of the content of the displayed article; including graphics. 3. Execute Copy (Edit menu/Copy, or Ctrl-C) 4. Open a new text document in Open Office Writer. 5. Paste the content into the OO document. You will notice that significant sections of the document are missing. Also, the graphics are not transfered. Pasting into an OO Writer HTML document works much better, however the graphics are still not transferred. Perhaps the transfer of graphics during copy/paste operations is a configuration setting in OO that I haven't found yet? The above scenario works well in Microsoft Word, so users will expect it to work well in Open Office. I haven't tested the scenario on my FC4 Linux box yet, but I suspect it will have the same results. Except for this copy/paste issue, Open Office Writer is a viable replacement for WORD as my word processor. Arnold Stadlin Software Engineer AppNetSys
Reassigned to ES.
Can reproduce with OOo 2.0.1rc2 m143 on WinXP SP2. From IE To Writer: Data loss and no images To Word: Perfect From Firefox 1.5 To Writer: Perfect To Word: Perfec When pasting to Writer behind a proxy, after filling user/password Writer freeze. Hwoarang
This issue addresses two different problems which are both duplicate: 1) some sections disappear because the table layout is too complex to break across pages -> issue 48463. 2) images pasted from IE can't be displayed in OOo -> issue 14613 *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 14613 ***
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