Issue 125646 - Paste Special in context menu is sometimes missing when trying to paste web contents.
Summary: Paste Special in context menu is sometimes missing when trying to paste web c...
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: editing (show other issues)
Version: 4.1.1
Hardware: PC Linux 32-bit
: P3 Normal with 1 vote (vote)
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Reported: 2014-09-20 20:05 UTC by Johnny Rosenberg
Modified: 2017-05-20 09:54 UTC (History)
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Description Johnny Rosenberg 2014-09-20 20:05:37 UTC 
Usually it works like expected, here's an example:
Highlight a cell in a Google spreadsheet document in Google Chrome (or other browser, I think I got the same result with Opera, for instance).
Ctrl+c.
Right click a cell in Apache OpenOffice spreadsheet.
Select Paste Special.
Select Unformatted text.
Done.

However, now and then Paste Special is missing.
If I restart Apache OpenOffice Calc, Paste Special is usually back again.

Unfortunately I could never figure out under which circumstances this misbehaviour happens. It happens maybe once every fifth time or so in average.
Comment 1 oooforum (fr) 2014-09-23 14:56:26 UTC 
You set "PC Linux32". Could you specify your distro?
Comment 2 Johnny Rosenberg 2014-09-23 17:37:53 UTC 
Oh, sorry. Yes, Ubuntu 14.04.
Comment 3 oooforum (fr) 2014-09-24 06:32:36 UTC 
(In reply to Johnny Rosenberg from comment #2)
> Oh, sorry. Yes, Ubuntu 14.04.
Are you sure to be in 32bit?
Comment 4 Johnny Rosenberg 2014-09-24 18:31:08 UTC 
Yes, 32-bit for sure. I tried to install the 64-bit Ubuntu a few years ago but it failed. The message was that I was trying to install a 64-bit operating system on a 32-bit computer. I bought the computer in 2007 with Ubuntu 7.04 pre-installed.
Comment 5 oooforum (fr) 2014-09-25 14:23:17 UTC 
Try to reset your profile.

You should post your problem on our end-user forum:
https://forum.openoffice.org
If other users can confirm that you find a problem located in the
application, so reproducible bug report is welcome.
Comment 6 Johnny Rosenberg 2014-09-25 17:18:17 UTC 
I usually post to the mailing list, but this time I didn't. Sorry. I guess you could remove this bug then.
Comment 7 oooforum (fr) 2014-10-26 11:20:07 UTC 
According to author's comment
Comment 8 richardbaxter 2014-12-15 00:50:07 UTC 
This issue is still occurring on AOO 4.1.0 (Ubuntu 14.04 x86_64);

1. Open Calc
2. Open html document in Firefox
3. Copy html text (eg text within an html table cell)
4. Paste Special fails in Calc (both ctrl-shift-v and menu option)
5. Open html document in Chromium
6. Copy html text (eg text within an html table cell)
7. Paste Special now works in Calc (both ctrl-shift-v and menu option)
8. Switch back to Firefox
9. Copy html text (eg text within an html table cell)
10. Paste Special now works in Calc (both ctrl-shift-v and menu option)
Comment 9 Kay 2014-12-15 22:02:11 UTC 
If this is an issue on Linux X64, maybe aa new issue should be opened.

I'm on Linux-32 and copied a row from the following html page --

http://cypress.csuchico.edu/APO/Webdocs/Schedule/CMS/GEClassSchedule_Pathways.asp?term=2152#WRIT

into a row in Calc using Paste Special with the html formatting option. No issues.

In other words, step 4 from Comment 8 works for me.

I'm not sure if this was an issue specifically related to the use of Google spreadsheet or not.