Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 18417
copy/cut/paste
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:41:36 UTC
copy/cut/paste does not work regardless of how you try to execute the command (i.e., keystroke, edit menu, mouse). this is incredibly an annoying bug.
The behavior of Paste degrades with time. Initially it works. Later, you have to use the menu command, as the keyboard command doesn't work (or vice versa; apologies -- I forget which way it happened). Now, it doesn't work at all for me.
WinXPPro/1.1rc3 Original reporter states that cut/copy/paste do not work at all. Initially functioned as expected via keyboard, mouse and menu. However, Ananda commented that paste function degrades, so I attempted to reproduce degraded paste performance as well. Working with a letter sized page set to shipping defaults, I copied a single line of text and pasted it repeatedly until it filled a full page with no problems. I then copied that page and pasted it repeatedly. At 21 to 22 pages (I tested this several times, thus the inconsistency), the CTRL+V failed to paste the text. I used right-click on the document and to paste via mouse for another ten pages, after which the CTRL+V from the keyboard worked again for another twenty pages. At this point, neither keyboard, mouse nor menu would perform the paste operation from the full page copy (which by this time has been pasted 60 times). I selected five lines from the same document, copied them and pasted them via the keyboard commands. Paste was slow and delayed -- I thought it wasn't working at all -- but after about ten seconds, the paste appeared. By this time, the document is 62 pages long. This is not the behavior originally reported. Should a new issue be filed? Tam
What about when you press return. Can you paste further?
Yes -- I can paste approximately 20 pages. Then hit return, then can paste another 20 pages, hit return, paste again, etc., etc. This is from the same original CTRL+C copy command. If you need actual file size as opposed to arbitrary "pages", let me know. Tam
HI->OS: Please comment the rules about the character count within a paragraph. And, how we will handle it in the future. May I label it as an enhancement to BH?
The 'problem' here is that paragraphs in Writer have a maximum of 64K characters. I can't see this as a P2 problem. Anyway, duplicate of 17171 *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 17171 ***
closing duplicate.