Bug 109011 - Calc: Edit-Paste Only items Text/Number/Formula don't paste content from Excel
Summary: Calc: Edit-Paste Only items Text/Number/Formula don't paste content from Excel
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 154152
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.3.0.3 release
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL: https://help.libreoffice.org/6.1/en-U...
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Keywords: implementationError
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Blocks: Paste-Special
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Reported: 2017-07-08 05:30 UTC by Dan Dascalescu
Modified: 2024-06-25 02:29 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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2017-07-08 05:31 UTC, Dan Dascalescu 		Details
My rest (46.33 KB, image/png)
2017-08-10 00:57 UTC, halima 		Details
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Description Dan Dascalescu 2017-07-08 05:30:53 UTC 
Description:
It's a little mind-boggling to me that this bug hasn't been filed yet, but I couldn't find it, so here it is.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a new Excel spreadsheet
2. Type 1, Enter, 2, Enter, 3, Enter
3. Copy those three cells to the clipboard
4. Ensure you can paste them in a regular text editor
5. Create a new Calc spreadsheet
6. Attempt to paste the cells *as text*. Paste Only -> Text / Number / Formula do nothing.


Actual Results:  
Paste, and notice you've pasted an image.

Expected Results:
Text


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No - I've just installed LibreOffice.

Additional Info:
This is critical in migrating from Excel, because simply importing XLSM files brings a lot of cruft that slows down the sheet by an order of magnitude - See bug 100709.


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Comment 1 Dan Dascalescu 2017-07-08 05:31:24 UTC 
Created attachment 134537 [details]
:-/
Comment 2 raal 2017-07-09 21:20:12 UTC 
I can not confirm with LO 6, Excel 2010, Win7. Paste only-> text/number/formula doesn't work, but ctrl+v works correctly.
Comment 3 Dan Dascalescu 2017-07-10 06:37:28 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Buovjaga 2017-08-07 13:08:00 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 halima 2017-08-08 00:58:40 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Buovjaga 2017-08-08 07:53:53 UTC 
(In reply to halima from comment #5)
> Excel 2016
> LO Version: 5.3.5.2
> Windows 10
> 
> Paste only-> text doesn't work
> but paste only or ctrl+v works fine

Do you get the same result as Dan: "Paste, and notice you've pasted an image."
Meaning, I think, that an OLE object is pasted.
Comment 7 halima 2017-08-10 00:57:48 UTC 
Created attachment 135385 [details]
My rest

No for me it wasn't an image as you can see in the attached image but text. But  copy Paste only-> text doesn't work only ctrl+v 
I think it'slike raal


Windows 10
LO Version: 5.4.0.3 (x64)
Build ID: 7556cbc6811c9d992f4064ab9287069087d7f62c
Excel 2016
Comment 8 Timur 2018-02-21 10:54:17 UTC 
Testing with 6.1+ master in Windows, I have working Ctrl+V, Paste Unformatted Text, and some Paste special options: GDI, DDE, Unformatted text, DIF, Formatted text, HTML, Biff8, Excel worksheet). Wording is Bug 89453.
I don't have working Edit-Paste Only: Text/Number/Formula. And I guess they should work (couldn't find help for them, that's another doc bug). So I'll confirm with title change as minor issue. Adding Implementation error because they were introduced in 5.3. 
Note: if testing, make sure you have only one LO version running. Otherwise options in Edit menu and right click are grayed/unavailable.
Comment 9 QA Administrators 2019-05-27 02:45:49 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 10 tds1 2020-11-25 16:54:06 UTC 
Confirmed. This bug currently exists with LibreOffice 7.0.3.1 (x64) on Windows 7.

All I want to do is paste a range of cells from Excel to Calc. This doesn't work in some cases. My version of Excel is Microsoft Excel 2000 (9.0.2720).

The cells in Excel that I am copying contain assorted numbers, text and formulas. I have also applied different kinds of formatting.

Below is what happened when I pasted an identical block of cells from Excel to Calc using various methods of pasting. 

Note that the menus in Calc are a bit confusing. When you click "Paste Special" you get a sub menu with more choices. The choices in the sub menu sometimes lead to further dialog boxes. Other sub menu choices take effect immediately. 

Confusingly one of the choices in the sub menu is "Paste Special" (again) which takes you to a further dialog box titled "Paste Special". So in effect you are selecting "Paste Special" three times in succession, so it could be thought of as "Paste extra extra special". 


Results
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Ordinary Paste (not special). Result as expected. Numbers, text, formulas and formatting are pasted as expected.

Paste using Ctrl+V. Result as expected. Same as ordinary paste above.

Paste Special > Paste Unformatted Text > Dialog "Text Import". Result as expected. Numbers are pasted as numbers. Text pasted as text. Formulas pasted as values. Formatting is not pasted.

Paste Special > Paste Only Text. Result: Broken. Nothing happens.

Paste Special > Paste Only Numbers. Result: Broken. Nothing happens.

Paste Special > Paste Only Formula. Result: Broken. Nothing happens.

Paste Special > Paste Special (again) > Dialog "Paste Special". Results as expected. Actual results vary according to the format selected. BIFF gives a full copy with formulas and formatting, DIF copies only values, DDE sets up links to values in the original sheet.

In summary, Paste Only Text, Paste Only Numbers and Paste Only Formula are all broken. 

HTH. Bob
Comment 11 QA Administrators 2022-11-26 03:41:15 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 12 Kira Tubo 2024-06-25 02:29:16 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 154152 ***