On 2011-06-20, Roxy Robinson wrote: > [...] I think the Paste Special item came > about because so many people started pasting stuff from web pages into > documents > (which is really nice) and didn't like what they were getting in their > documents. > Course, lots of folks, including myself, didn't understand just exactly what > the > command was for when it became available in M$ Office.
My two cents: The idea I have of paste special is that some programs (at least in Windows) put the copied content in the clipboard in more than one format (so a WMF image gets in the clipboard as WMF and as a bitmap), and with paste special you can now pick which version to paste. And I guess then LibO and M$O added a couple conversions of their own to that Paste Special option. But I might be wrong. -- Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
