James Elliott wrote:
Since up grading to OOo 3.1 (running under Windows XP) Copy and Paste
is not working properly, in some instances.
When I copy the contents of a 'name and address' cell in a Calc
worksheet, into text box in a Draw document:
1. the first line copies across as font size 12pt
2. the second line copies across as font size 18pt
3. the third line copies across as font size 18pt
In the original Calc worksheet, all three lines were font size 10.5 pt
Can anyone explain to me what is happening and how to recitfy it, please.
Many thanks, James
I'm using 3.1 on Vista and what you report does not happen for me. What
I did was as follows:
1. Open a new spreadsheet
2. Enter a 3-line address into A1 using Ctrl-Enter to force line-breaks
3. Copy the contents of this cell
4. Open a new text document
5. Create an empty text box
6. Paste [the contents of the clipboard] into the text box
The pasted text was all the same size as the original.
I also tried changing (made bigger) the font size of the middle line in
my spreadsheet's A1 and copy/pasting the result into a new text box in
the same Writer document. The result was correct - the text box's
middle line was the right [bigger] size.
I think that the precise details of what you are doing are different
from what I am doing.
Ahhh. I changed the larger text in cell A1 back to its original size,
copied the cell and pasted it into the Writer document. The result was
that the middle line was the *bigger* size. I conclude that I had not
actually copied the cell. I went back to it, selected all its text
(Ctrl-A while the cursor is in the cell), copied it and now the paste is OK.
Further experimentation shows that if you change the text size in the
cell and then immediately copy, the result is the *old* size. After
changing the cell contents, you need to click outside it and then back
in again before copying.
Does this solve your problem?
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Harold Fuchs
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