Unexpectedly sometimes format is not properly copied to clipboard, specifically when copying a table with format applied to partial text of a cell. For example, when all the content of a cell has style (bold, italics) the format is copied to clipboard <td height="27" align="left"><b><font color="#000000">AS A</font></b></td> As expected html contains tags<b></b> , BTW this way is more compatible and nicer than the how excel copies format to clipaboard However, when the style is applies just to a substring or a partial text, the format for the cell is lost/not copied to clipboard <td align="left"><font color="#000000">normal text, bold text </font></td> "bold text" has bold in the cell but as you can see there is no tags<b></b> How to reproduce fill a cell with a no format tex fill a cell with a text in bold fill a cell with a text in bold, italics and not format copy cells Paste in excel as HTML Paste in a notepad with support for paste "as HMTL" i.e PSPAD Then you will see that unexpectedly format sometimes is not saved to clipboard Found in several windows versions, including 7.6beta
Reproduced in: Version: 7.6.0.0.beta1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: be55b15d98c5f059483845a183fcb5ea8023d27c CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Multi-format cell contents are kept when pasting in e.g. Gnumeric, but probably because it uses a different clipboard target. If: - pasting in Google Sheets - pasting in Office.com - pasting in OnlyOffice desktop - pasting special in LibreOffice Calc as HTML - using the command: `xclip -selection clipboard -o -t text/html` ... we get unformatted when the source cell has differently formatted parts. Same in OOo 3.3, so inherited.
Created attachment 188044 [details] sample ODS file Steps: 1. Copy cells A1:A3 2. Paste special HTML elsewhere in the sheet Results: format is retained for A2, but not for multi-formatted cell A3.
Created attachment 188045 [details] xclip output for text/html target After using steps in comment 2. Note missing formatting tags for bottom cell.