Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 71310
in-cell formatting lost on RTF copy/paste to Writer
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:13:32 UTC
If a cell contains "hello there" with the 'hello' bold and the 'there' italic, copying that cell together with a blank cell below it to the clipboard and then doing Edit->Paste Special->RTF in Writer pastes it as plain text in a table - ie the formatting is lost. I think this is a bug rather than an enhancement request, because 1. if "hello there" is *all* bold or whatever it pastes fine 2. if you just copy/paste a single cell it works fine (ie no table) 3. if the cells are copied from Excel rather than Calc it works fine :( This matter was discussed on the Calc user forum Oct/Nov 2006 under the heading "rich text formatting" and confirmed there by other users
Apologies - this should have been under Spreadsheet, not Chart - it must have changed without me noticing.
This is an outstanding bug with calc integration into the rest of the OOo suite. MSO is better in this respect which should be a challange to OOo programmers. We all want OOo to outdo MSO.
*** Issue 71310 has been confirmed by votes. ***
Changed Component -> dont forget to change the Owner. @fst: I think its yours
Hi Eike, one for you ? Frank
Maybe. That RTF clipboard filter was never meant to be a complete export filter. We don't export any individual in-cell formatting to RTF, only some basic attributes applied to the entire cell. As implementing this would be quite some effort I change this issue to type 'feature'.
It may be hard, be MSO has outdone you in this. It's in the world's best interesrs to overcome such problems.
For info: The worthy Villeroy at the Calc user forum has written a macro as a workaround. It is at: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=186613
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".