Bug 97305 - Paste in Text Box doesn't work as expected
Summary: Paste in Text Box doesn't work as expected
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.0.4.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
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Blocks: Paste
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Reported: 2016-01-21 19:35 UTC by wpeaton4
Modified: 2022-08-08 15:54 UTC (History)
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Description wpeaton4 2016-01-21 19:35:19 UTC
Pasting into a Text Box does not work as expected. Paste and/or Paste Special is only available in some cases

This behavior seems to be true across all major apps (Writer, Impress, Calc).

It's most annoying in Impress, where all text is in Text Boxes.

                        | Ctl+V |  Edit Menu | Context Menu	
Platform | Copy From    | Paste |Paste|P Spec|Paste|P Spec
------------------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------
Windows/ | LibO, Winword|  YES  | YES |  NO  | YES | YES*
         | -------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------
LibO     | Notepad      |  YES  | NO  |  NO  | NO  | YES*
         | -------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------     
5.0.4.2  | Thunderbird  |  YES  | NO  |  NO  | NO  | YES*
------------------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------
Linux/   | LibO         |  YES  | YES |  NO  | YES | NO
LibO     | -------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------     
4.2.8.2  | Evince Viewer|  YES  | YES |  NO  | YES | NO

YES* = command is available but doesn't work
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2016-01-27 17:22:08 UTC
(In reply to wpeaton4 from comment #0)
>                         | Ctl+V |  Edit Menu | Context Menu	
> Platform | Copy From    | Paste |Paste|P Spec|Paste|P Spec
> ------------------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------
> Windows/ | LibO, Winword|  YES  | YES |  NO  | YES | YES*
>          | -------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------
> LibO     | Notepad      |  YES  | NO  |  NO  | NO  | YES*
>          | -------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------     
> 5.0.4.2  | Thunderbird  |  YES  | NO  |  NO  | NO  | YES*
> ------------------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------

Reproduced.

Win 7 Pro 64-bit Version: 5.2.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 6b65a0e83c4798f117be61af91dbaebdc85e94b7
CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Windows 6.1; UI Render: default; 
TinderBox: Win-x86@39, Branch:master, Time: 2016-01-21_03:41:08
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI)
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2017-03-06 14:04:55 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 wpeaton4 2017-03-06 16:49:49 UTC
Reproduced again in Windows and Linux 6 Mar 2017

Windows 10
Libreoffice 5.2.5.1

Lubuntu Linux 16.04
Libreoffice 5.1.6.2
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2018-03-08 03:44:49 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 wpeaton4 2018-03-08 17:10:52 UTC
Some movement on this issue for 5.4 series. Paste and paste special
in a text box seems to be evolving and is different for different applications

                          Results for pasting in Impress

                        | Ctl+V |  Edit Menu | Context Menu	
Platform | Copy From    | Paste |Paste|P Spec|Paste|P Spec
------------------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------
Windows/ | LibO, Winword|  YES  | YES | YES  | YES | NO
         | -------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------
LibO     | Notepad      |  YES  | NO  | NO   | NO  | NO
         | -------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------     
5.4.5.1  | Thunderbird  |  YES  | YES | YES† | YES | NO
------------------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------
* command is available but doesn't work
† command available but only 'unformatted text' option

                          Results for pasting in Writer

                        | Ctl+V |  Edit Menu | Context Menu	
Platform | Copy From    | Paste |Paste|P Spec|Paste|P Spec
------------------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------
Windows/ | LibO, Winword|  YES  | YES | YES† | NO  | YES†
         | -------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------
LibO     | Notepad      |  YES  | NO  | NO   | NO  | YES*
         | -------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------     
5.4.5.1  | Thunderbird  |  YES  | NO  | NO   | NO  | YES*
------------------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------
* command is available but doesn't work
† command available but only 'unformatted text' option
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2019-03-09 03:42:35 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 wpeaton4 2019-03-15 16:40:52 UTC
Revisited in 6.2.1.2 on Windows. For the most part, behavior has improved quite a bit. The Paste Special command is now more widely available. Pasting formatted text into a text box, does not really work well across the board. Font face, font size, and font style are all lost.
Comment 8 Timur 2020-06-25 17:36:58 UTC Comment hidden (me-too)
Comment 9 Timur 2020-06-25 17:39:18 UTC
Please download daily master LO 7.1+ from https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/current.html and retest.
Master is separate to working LO and doesn't take extensions. 
There was some general improvement on paste, so good to see what happens here.
Comment 10 wpeaton4 2022-08-08 15:49:19 UTC
I'm gonna declare victory on this one. Impress is still not 100%, but maybe close enough. Paste is now clearly much more usable in Text Boxes.

                          Results for pasting in Impress

                        | Ctl+V |  Edit Menu | Context Menu	
Platform | Copy From    | Paste |Paste|P Spec|Paste|P Spec
------------------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------
Windows/ | LibO, Winword|  YES  | YES | YES  | YES | NO‡
         | -------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------
LibO     | Notepad      |  YES  | YES | YES  | YES | NO‡
         | -------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------     
7.2.7.1  | Thunderbird  |  YES  | YES | YES  | YES | NO‡
------------------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------
‡ paste unformatted text is available

                         Results for pasting in Writer

                        | Ctl+V |  Edit Menu | Context Menu	
Platform | Copy From    | Paste |Paste|P Spec|Paste|P Spec
------------------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------
Windows/ | LibO, Winword|  YES  | YES | YES  | YES | YES
         | -------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------
LibO     | Notepad      |  YES  | YES | YES  | YES | YES
         | -------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------     
7.2.7.1  | Thunderbird  |  YES  | YES | YES  | YES | YES
------------------------+-------+-----+------+-----+-------