[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 124764] New: Paste structured text without format but with styles

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124764

            Bug ID: 124764
           Summary: Paste structured text without format but with styles
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: framework
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: ewl+libreoffice at lavar.de

In all tools, especially Writer and Impress, but also the others, if you
cut&paste text or objects from one document to the next, you get each time new
styles Default_1 etc, even if the two documents are actually different versions
of the same document that you are merging back, and the styles are actually the
same.

But even if you paste text from different documents/styles, you generally want
the final text to look all the same and not want e.g. "body" text to look in 3
different ways in your text or presentation.

So the enhancement would be to have a special paste mode which keeps the style
structure (i.e. a heading remains a heading, a list a list, etc) of the pasted
text but it is being mapped to the style existing in the target document, so
that the document is maximally homogeneous.

This is a feature that even MS Word doesn't have, which would be a great
differentiator (how many Frankenstein texts have you seen in your life, and
tried to fix, with bullet lists looking different depending on who wrote the
original piece of text?).

Additionally, it would be nice if:

* this new pasting mode could be made the default mode, I rarely want something
else
* also things like HTML would be pasted similarly (e.g. H1 mapped to "Heading
1")
* hard _character_ formatting would be kept (not hard formatting of whole
paragraphs)

Last but not least:

* it's not the same as pasting as text, as you lose all kind of structure
* it's not the same approach as Bug #83102 which just takes the style of the
one chapter it is being pasted into

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