[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 103350] Paste from Clipboard - it changes format of whole word as per last letter on previous line

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103350

--- Comment #11 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
It is a clear usability issue. With all the formatting layers and their
relations, it's next to impossible to provide a single mode of operation that
fits all. MS Word has helper buttons appearing near pasted text that allow to
modify how formatting is applied to the pasted text (keep original/follow
current etc), and that allows to be flexible in such a complex case as pasting
of formatted text into formatted text.

Of course the behaviour is not a bug in the sense that "it works as intended":
the pasted text has no "bold" property (unlike explicit "no bold" which would
have prevented the behaviour - test this: instead of setting last character
bold in step 2 in comment 0, set the whole word bold, then select all but last
character and unset bold). But as said, there can't be a simple solution here
that fits all - thus I suggest to have a UX evaluation how to make pasting
behave flexibly wrt which set of properties to apply (none/target/source/both).

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