https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154790
Bug ID: 154790
Summary: Copy and paste alter all Heading paragraph styles
throughout the remainder of the document
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.4.5.1 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: Windows (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: dale8...@gmail.com
Steps to reproduce the problem:
1) Create or open an ODT Writer document that already has some Heading
paragraph styles used in the document.
E.g.:
Heading 1 (apply the Heading 1 paragraph style)
text
Heading 2 (apply the Heading 2 paragraph style)
text
2) Copy some code from a SQLQuery window in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
version 19.0.1.
3) Paste into the ODT Writer document. Not only does the new text come in
formatted, but this action also changes the appearance of the Headings that
previously existed in the document; the Headings throughout the entire document
are all now indented. Using Edit>Undo does remove the pasted text, but does not
undo the changes to the various Heading paragraph styles.
Editing the paragraph style does not reveal why the headings are now all
indented; the Indents & Spacing tab in the "Paragraph Style: Heading 1" dialog
shows 0.00 cm for the Indent > Before text and Indent > First line settings.
I understand that normal paste copies in the formatting, so that the pasted
text preserves tables, colours, etc. But changing the existing paragraph styles
in the destination ODT so that the entire remainder of the document is changed
is not desirable behaviour; in particular having all Headings indented is an
obvious and ugly change to automatically impose.
I want an option that allows me to copy in formatted text, preserving the
incoming colours, fonts, bullets and numbered lists, without allowing the paste
to mess up the existing paragraph styles used in the remainder of the document
that existed before the paste.
Microsoft Word has a paste option to merge foramtting with the styles that
already exist in the document; so if the incoming text uses common paragraph
styles like Heading 1, then the incoming text would use the existing style from
the destination document and have its appearance changed to match the
destination document.
Or maybe have an option to copy, but do not import or apply paragraph styles
for the pasted text; instead just have the text set to be based on Default
Paragraph Style but then apply bolding, colours and fonts as needed to preserve
the look of the incoming text, but that pasted text will not use any defined
paragraph styles.
Note that the Paste Special > Rich text formatting (RTF) option gives the same
behaviour that alters the remainder of the document.
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