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).
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