On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:15:44AM -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 08/30/2013 10:11 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
> >
> >      Hello,
> >
> >   I would like to be able to copy-paste text without transferring the
> > format. I'm using F19 with KDE.
> >
> >   Currently, when I copy-paste (between Firefox, LibreOffice, etc),
> > formatting like font, font size and font attributes get also copied and
> > pasted. But I am looking for a way to copy-paste such that the format of
> > the original text is discarded and instead the format of the target
> > document is used, as if I had typed the text on the keyboard.
> >
> >   (My wife uses the following trick on Windows: copy-paste text into
> > URL-field of the browser, then copy-paste from URL-field to destination).
> >
>
> Try a right click and see if there's a "paste without formatting"
> option. It depends on the receiving application.  If not, keep a copy of
> your favorite text editor open and use that as a mid-point.

AFAIK LO calls it paste special (under the Edit menu, Ctrl + Shift + v).