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Paste without formatting to other application
I want to paste without formatting. Specifically, I want to copy text from Word to a document I've opened in Open Office.
Suddenly, this gives me all kind of problems. Is this due to a recent opdate in Word 2013, and how it handles the clipboard? Windows 8.1, Word 2013, OoO 4.0. I select a word in Word. I copy it (CTRL+C). I go to Open Office Writer and press CTRL+SHIFT+V to paste without formatting: nothing happens. I go to another application (Notepad, a rich text editor, doesn't matter wich) and press CTRL+V there: the word is pasted alright. So it is on the clipboard. Why doesn't it want to be copied to Open Office? At least not without formatting? It's not consistent: I copy all text in the document in Word, I paste that into Open Office: it works. I select another word: it works. I select another word: it doesn't work. It may seem as though this is an Open Office problem. But actually I get the feeling it's something to do with the way Office deals with the clipboard. (I find the recent interface very opaque. There's no more "help>about" in the menu, so I have no idea where I can find detailed information about the exact version number of my Word installation. And there's that OneNote application that installs itselfs and starts automatically at startup and I don't see any menu option to turn off this automatic startup, even though I never use it.) MTIA. |
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The problem may, of course, have nothing to do with either application, but perhaps with another app that periodically clears the clipboard. I'd suggest checking what 3rd-party apps are running in each app and also what background processes are running in Windows.
Regarding the Word version details, see File>Help>About. As for disabling OneNote, see, for example: http://www.ehow.com/how_6826398_disa...t-onenote.html
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Thank you. I see the control over what starts up at startup has moved to the task manager in Windows 8. That's an improvement.
The problem occured only in Open Office and I get the feeling it's an Open Office problem, witness this thread I started about it: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/foru...hp?f=7&t=69001 |
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A check of Open Office Writer indicates that the Ctrl+Shift+V is not a built-in shortcut for paste unformatted, unless you know otherwise. I would think this lies at the base of the problem.
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A couple of thoughts:
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Hm. Not what I've been used to seeing! just don't ask me why the short-cut is labelled in French …
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You mentioned Open Office, but your screen shot is for LibreOffice. They are not the same.
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Good point :-}
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In LibreOffice Writer, you use Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V to paste the contents of the clipboard as unformatted text.
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