Description: When pasting text copied from a Rich Text Format source, the paste option pastes the text as an image object, not text. If I right-click and choose "Paste Special" I can choose to "paste as unformatted text", and it is successful. If I chose "Paste Special" -> "Text" nothing is pasted. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Copy some text from a Rich Text Format source. I used part of an email body text in the Microsoft Outlook preview pane. 2. Paste somewhere in LibreOffice Calc. Actual Results: Data is pasted as an image, not text. Has "handlebars" and right-clicking gives pop-up Object menu, "Send to Front", "Align" etc. options Expected Results: Paste as text, not image Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: [Information automatically included from LibreOffice] Locale: en-US Module: SpreadsheetDocument [Information guessed from browser] OS: Windows (All) OS is 64bit: no Version: 7.0.2.2 (x64) Build ID: 8349ace3c3162073abd90d81fd06dcfb6b36b994 CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 18363; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Source of "text" Microsoft Outlook Versioni 2002 (Build 12527.21236 Click-to-Run)
Created attachment 166664 [details] Example of pasted text appearing as image. The "Copy Properties" pop-up dialog box is from the "Ditto" windows clipboard manager application, showing data in the Windows clipboard is available in 3 format, CT_TEXT, CF_UNICODETEXT, and Rich Text Format. I can reproduce this issue if "Ditto" is not active.
Created attachment 166665 [details] Calc ODS file with text pasted as object Calc spreadsheet with two text blocks that were pasted as imaage objects
I tested on an older laptop, with version 6.3.3.2 (x64), using Microsoft TextPad as the source of the copy, and same results; pasted as an image.
Dear Mark, thanks for your report. Suppose it's not really a bug since it's a usual way for LO as the same is observed if you copy data from a docx file. As for your example you can also choose to paste as "Rich text formatting" if you prefer to paste the text as text.