Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 7280
tool to copy and paste only formatting
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
It would be convenient to have a tool that can copy and paste the formatting. So instead of copying for example a piece of text or a cell, only the formatting of that piece of text or that cell is copied, and can then be applied to another text or cell. I think that a similar feature in MS Office is called "Format Painter".
I totally agree. It exists partly in the spreadsheet component but this is hardly user friendly, you cannot make a button for it and it is non existing in the word processor.
Reassigned to Bettina.
This is something many users (like me) are used from WINDOWS office software. Quite often you find out that you want to take the formatting (especially TABs) of another paragraph for your actual paragraph. We already have a similar fine function for spreadsheets. There for "special paste" I can disable all checkboxes except "formatting", and then only the formatting will be copied from the source-cell to the selectd cells. Something similar would be fine for the word processor. So I chaneg status: --> New component: ui --> writer (because I think that's most important for word processor and we have it for spreadsheets priority: 3 --> 4 Rainer
Sounds similar to Issue 7724 In MS Word, there's a Copy/Paste Format feature accessed by keystrokes Control+Shift+C/Control+Shift+V. As someone who worked for years as a MS Word specialist, I can tell you that this is a 'must-have' feature. As always, please try to use the same keystrokes as Word.
*** Issue 7724 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 7797 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
This is a must have feature! I know many people who are using ms office instead of openoffice because the format painter is not supported. Once you know the format painter, you won't live without them... It should not be a big issue to implement this feature.
I quote armin71: "This is a must have feature! I know many people who are using ms office instead of openoffice because the format painter is not supported. Once you know the format painter, you won't live without them... " Some people need this issue. bye z.
I think this issue can be closed now, in OOo 1.9.62 Writer and Calc there is now a "Format Paintbrush".
Indeed, the format paintbrush is present in OOo 2.0. FIXED?
*** Issue 35307 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
A "tool" exists already in current OOo (i.e. the formatting painter). For specifically copy-pasting styles, there is issue 70383. Since this issue is a bit of both, I'm marking this fixed and depending that other issue.
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as fhimpe describe -> close