Bug 139084

Summary:	Copy and paste does not work
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	loadmasther <loadmasther>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	jrk33
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Windows (All)
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature:	["SwPosition::SwPosition(SwPosition const &)"]	Regression By:

Description loadmasther 2020-12-20 02:56:30 UTC

Description:
No matter the source, every so often I copy a text and go to the writer document that I am editing, when right-clicking, pasting or pasting without formatting, it is disabled.

What I do most of the time is close the document and reopen it, it works sometimes, but there are times where I have to restart the pc, open the document and just then it is enabled a few times. It fails again and back to the same thing, which takes all the time in the world from me.

Windows 10, Huawei Matebook D15 Libre Office version 7.0.3.1 (x64)

Actual Results:
No matter the source, every so often I copy a text and go to the writer document that I am editing, when right-clicking, pasting or pasting without formatting, it is disabled.

Expected Results:
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Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
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Comment 1 [REDACTED] 2020-12-20 11:27:01 UTC

No repro

Version: 7.0.4.2 (x64)
Build ID: dcf040e67528d9187c66b2379df5ea4407429775
CPU threads: 1; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19042; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_DE); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Are you using a clipboard manager?

Comment 2 wingednova 2021-01-17 08:53:33 UTC

Couldn't reproduce on
Version: 7.0.3.1 (x64)
Build ID: d7547858d014d4cf69878db179d326fc3483e082
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19041; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-IN (en_IN); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Does copy/ paste work fine outside of LibreOffice?

Comment 3 Buovjaga 2021-01-19 12:15:21 UTC

Win 10 has a built-in clipboard manager, but it is turned off by default. Maybe worth it to check, though: https://cgreen.ws/2020/06/windows-10s-built-in-clipboard-manager/

Comment 4 jasonkres 2021-01-23 17:29:37 UTC

This is greatly impacting my users as well. Here is a simple way to observe:

1. Open Writer (or Calc) and Windows Notepad. Position the two windows so you can see them both onscreen.
2. Type the word "test" in Notepad and select it.
3. Press Ctrl+C in Notepad.
4. Notice that the Paste toolbar button in Writer (or Calc) becomes enabled.
5. Repeat pressing Ctrl+C in Notepad several times with a 1 second delay between each press while observing Writer (or Calc) toolbar.
6. A large percentage of the time the Paste button becomes disabled. This is incorrect because the clipboard does contain the data.

Usually Ctrl+V works correctly to paste the data even though the toolbar button does not indicate that paste is possible. Unfortunately, even this workaround fails often enough to be problematic.

Toggling the Windows 10 clipboard manager (Settings > Clipboard > Clipboard history) does not help.

The problem is not limited to Writer, I've seen it also in Calc.

The problem even occurs in the current latest RC (7.1.0.2).

Sounds like dupe of bug 116983.

The problem is severe for users whose workload involves a lot of copying and pasting data from other applications. It is worst for those users who are uncomfortable with keyboard shortcuts.

Version: 7.1.0.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 53d68d29d90fd16448721a60aad68c28ff0809f5
CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19041; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL

Comment 5 Timur 2021-01-24 11:13:00 UTC

Please search before submitting. There are multiple bugs on paste: Bug 57147, bug 65606, bug 116983...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 116983 ***