Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I think this issue is not a bug in openoffice, it is a bug in the website you are trying to copy from. The problem is that the code is not valid HTML (it contains a tag "<content_ad_possible>" which is not an HTML tag but probably there for placing ads) and openoffice is confused by this. Arguably, openoffice should be more "forgiving" like most browsers are, but I doubt the developers of openoffice want to spend too much time on fixing the copy/paste for broken html... :-/ As far as I can see, abiword is not pasting the html, but only the plain text (therefore it works). Doing the same is a workaround for openoffice: Instead of "paste", use "paste special" from the edit menu and select "unformatted text".
If you think that openoffice should be able to better cope with incorrect HTML, please feel free to reopen the bug (by setting the status back to "New"). A useful step would be to see whether you can reproduce the problem with openoffice from http://download.openoffice.org/index.html ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Broken copy/paste in openoffice-writer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/581292 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
