Re: Copy-pasting without transferring format

2013-09-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
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

Re: Copy-pasting without transferring format

2013-09-04 Thread Bill Oliver
On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, Bill Davidsen wrote: Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Hello, I would like to be able to copy-paste text without transferring the format. I'm using F19 with KDE. [snip] In many applications shift-ctrl-V calls paste-without-formatting. In some shift-ctrl-C does a c

Re: Copy-pasting without transferring format

2013-09-03 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 01:07:14PM -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Suvayu Ali < > fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:19:54PM -0400, Oli

Re: Copy-pasting without transferring format

2013-08-31 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 01:07:14PM -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Suvayu Ali > wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:19:54PM -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Suvayu Ali < > > f

Re: Copy-pasting without transferring format

2013-08-30 Thread Davide Bolcioni
On Saturday, August 31, 2013 12:24:16 PM Tim wrote: > I do wish OpenOffice/LibreOffice had an easy copy and paste of > style/formatting option, though. So you could simply re-apply a style > from another paragraph, for those occasions when it'd be quicker to work > that way. Darned if I can find

Re: Copy-pasting without transferring format

2013-08-30 Thread Martin S
On Friday, August 30, 2013 05:23:36 PM Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > (My wife uses the following trick on Windows: copy-paste text into > AFAIK LO calls it paste special (under the Edit menu, Ctrl + Shift + v). As does MS Office under Windows. /M. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: Copy-pasting without transferring format

2013-08-30 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 11:11 -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > 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 i

Re: Copy-pasting without transferring format

2013-08-30 Thread Roger
Don't know if this helps but for years not I copy and paste to vim or gedit, this seems to remove formatting particularly microsoft formatting, then c&p to the proposed document. It's the only way I could find to erase hidden "stuffing" Roger Hello, On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Suv

Re: Copy-pasting without transferring format

2013-08-30 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:19:54PM -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Suvayu Ali < > fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > AFAIK LO calls it paste special (under the

Re: Copy-pasting without transferring format

2013-08-30 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:19:54PM -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Suvayu Ali > wrote: > > > > AFAIK LO calls it paste special (under the Edit menu, Ctrl + Shift + v). > > > > Thanks for the hint. "paste special", with short-cut Ctrl-Shift-V

Re: Copy-pasting without transferring format

2013-08-30 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > 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 > > > for

Re: Copy-pasting without transferring format

2013-08-30 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/30/2013 08:11 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker issued this missive: Hello, I would like to be able to copy-paste text without transferring the format. I'm using F19 with KDE. Use a right-click in the target window and opt for "paste as plain text". It often depends on the target app if i

Re: Copy-pasting without transferring format

2013-08-30 Thread Suvayu Ali
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

Re: Copy-pasting without transferring format

2013-08-30 Thread Steven Stern
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 attribu

Copy-pasting without transferring format

2013-08-30 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
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-