Issue 60839 - Paste does not always preserve formatting
Summary: Paste does not always preserve formatting
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2006-01-19 22:04 UTC by theosib
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description theosib 2006-01-19 22:04:18 UTC 
Typically, when you copy from one place in a document and paste in another
place, the formatting of the copied text is preserved.  So if it was italicized
in the old place, it will be italicised in the new one, regardless of the
formatting of the surrounding text in the new location.  (Unless you do
something like Paste Special, but I'm not talking about that here.)

I have found an instance where the formatting is not preserved:

1. Type x1y2
2. Make the 1 and 2 subscripts
3. Select the "y2" and Copy it (ctrl-c)
4. Move the cursor to between the 1 and the y
5. Paste (ctrl-v)

Expected behavior:  If formatting were preserved, the inserted text would have y
normal-sized and the 2 subscripted.

Observed behavior:  Both the y and the 2 end up being subscripts.  This is
because the 1 is a subscript and formatting is not being pasted properly.
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2006-01-20 05:25:01 UTC 
Reassigned to ES.
Comment 2 lars 2006-01-20 21:55:12 UTC 
confirmed on Windows XP Pro SP2 with OOo-dev 2.0 (m151)
Comment 3 jack.warchold 2006-02-03 14:28:57 UTC 
confirmed on SRC680_m154
after talking to ama, he agrees that this is a bug, reassigend to fme

set target to OOo later
Comment 4 antares 2008-04-15 16:56:20 UTC 
This bug is rather annoying, and it doesn't seem to have any development in the
last 2 years. Is it really so hard to fix?
Comment 5 frank.meies 2008-04-16 08:42:43 UTC 
fme->antares: This needs some further investigation, which of course takes its
time. Time which I then cannot spend on more "serious" issues. Please be
patient, I see that this is a bug, but from my point of view not a very critical
one.