I just did exactly what you described, using a document in a text editor and LO 6.0.1.1 on a Mac, and the copy-paste from the text editor to LO worked perfectly. The second text selected was the text pasted the second time. I can only conclude that there is something wrong with your personal setup.
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 6:44 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz <ny...@hb.tp1.jp> wrote: > On 2018/05/12 2:11, Brian Barker wrote: > >> At 20:04 10/05/2018 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: >> >>> >>> Problem: Select a text portion in one application -> move to Writer -> >>> Ctrl+V (paste). >>> >> >> Sorry, most likely my explanation was not good enough. > So, I will try it again. My home computer is now on 6.0.4 - which did NOT > improve things. > (if anything, the apparent lack of scaling capability for the interface > font makes work only harder) > > Use any piece of text: let's use A = help / B = rescue > * Suppose now I have a text editor open and select "A" on the editor > screen and press Ctrl+C (or use the mouse to achieve the same thing) > * switch to Writer > * press Ctrl+V (or use the mouse to achieve the same thing) > * I get "A" > So far so good. > * Next I select a different word, like B and perform the same procedure. > * Having done this a trillion times on "countless" computers using equally > "countless" different applications -> > * I DO expect to get "B" in Writer. > * However, Writer insists on copying "A". It does not matter how many > times I repeat the procedure. > * This morning it even continued to insist in copying "A" instead of "B" > AFTER I shut Writer down and reopened it. > * When I use the "Ctrl+C" + "Ctrl+V" routine to copy either "A" or "B" > into software OTHER than Libreoffice, it works as expected. > > I am definitely NOT a computer expert, but I believe I can perform a "copy > and paste" action. > In particular when I do this deliberately and with great care. > One might argue, that "A" is still on the (Windows) clipboard. > But if that were true, copying it to other applications should also give > me an "A", but I actually get the requested "B". > > For that reason I cannot help but assume, that there is something strange > going on in Writer. > While working in Writer I use Calc in parallel to create a list of term > and their translations. > Copying either A or B from other applications into Cals DOES NOT give me > this grief. (at least not yet) > This is a recent event and I don't thing I have had this problem with the > computer in my little clinic. > Even though this may not be any sort of "fatal error", it is nonetheless > very annoying during work. > > Is this explanation a little better? > Thomas > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-un > subscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
