On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 09:27 +0100, Andy Pepperdine wrote: > On Thursday 30 March 2006 20:53, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > > > I'm guessing what the question is, but is the text you are pasting in the > > > clipboard? Most applications need something like ctrl-c to put it there. > > > > Don't know - is there a clipboard in linux? I selected text on a web page, > > clicked on "Copy", clicked in the cell in the table, no "paste" option > > available. If I paste in some other area of the document, I can then select > > THAT text and paste into the cell. So why won't it paste direct from the > > external source? > > Ah - I'd guessed only part of the question. I'm sorry, I can't help you any > further as I've just tried several situations and I cannot reproduce the case > where a paste will work in open text, but not in a table cell. It always > works from/to everywhere so far as I can see. >
I recall seeing messages in this list about certain distros having problems with clipboard management. If Gord has one of these OSes then this could be the problem. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
