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------- Additional comments from egr...@openoffice.org Sun Jan 25 01:14:05 +0000 2009 ------- This behaviour is easily reproducible on Windows as well as Linux, and its status as a bug is up for debate, but I can understand how it is confusing to a user in that it produces an unexpected result. To reproduce the users issue: 1) In Write, create a table, enter some text in the table, then select the entire table and copy it. 2) In Impress, select Paste from the Right Mouse Button (RMB)--> the entire table is pasted. Interestingly, it picks up table-formatting as it is pasted -- the pasted table has blue cells and white lines, rather than the black borders of the original table in Write. 3) In Impress, select the text tool and begin typing some text. While the text frame is still active, select Paste from the RMB--> the text in the table is added to the text. The user is correct in stating that in this circumstance the effect of Paste is more like what you'd expect from Paste Special, in that it converts the clipboard content to text. What I found most unusual about all of this behaviour is that to have the exact content copied from Write pasted, the user must select Paste Special from the Edit menu and choose to paste clipboard comments as an "Open Office 3.0 Text Document", which creates an embedded object but preserves the original appearance of the table. See the attachment for illustration of the three different results of the paste command. The behaviour of the Paste function is very context-sensitive, and I think it's difficult for a user to anticipate the result except through trial and error. But the inconsistency of the function according to context should really be a different bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@graphics.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@graphics.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
