[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 98381] Pasting text at the beginning of a style changes the style to that of the pasted text

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98381

--- Comment #13 from William Friedman <will.friedman at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to sdc.blanco from comment #12)
> (In reply to William Friedman from comment #11)
> > Yes, you misunderstood. The problem is when a new style has been selected
> Thanks for clarification. Now I can reproduce what you describe.
> 
> Try this one. Follow your procedure, but use Ctrl-Alt-Shift-V (paste
> unformatted) when you paste to the empty line (with a different paragraph
> style).  Should do what you were expecting.
> 
> Will add needsUXeval so that you can get a resolution, but I predict that
> you will be told that this is by design (and that you should use
> Ctrl-Alt-Shift-V), and not a bug. (See bug #100018 comment 7)

The problem with this solution (as I wrote in response to a similar suggestion
just today over on bug #100018) is that "paste unformatted" removes all
attributes, including bold, italics, etc. (This is represents my typical use
case: a bunch of text written with such attributes that I move from the body to
a footnote.) It is therefore *not* what I'm expecting. It is also very strange
behavior (as someone wrote over on that bug): why should pasting into a style
that already has but a single space preserve all the attributes of the pasted
text but change its style, while doing so without the space reverts the style
(and, in the case of footnotes, completely messes up the formatting)? If this
is truly by design, it seems like a very odd choice that requires some
justification. Thank you for adding the relevant tag.

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