@davesmeg @TimWardCam @CriticalCupcake As always, this...

@davesmeg @TimWardCam @CriticalCupcake As always, this should be the USERS choice.

There was already the problem of the paste command losing information. A no-no!
If I have copied formatted text, images, tables, application objects and linked objects, in many cases I do not wish to lose work and have to redo it. So they fixed the problem.

It's not just a plain text world for many people.

Like 5 May 2023 at 11:14 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.cloud

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

@ianp5a @davesmeg @CriticalCupcake Yes, it should be the user's choice. We're discussing what should be the *default*, without having to right click or find a menu or anything.

5 May 2023 at 12:21 | Open on c.im

Iaη

@TimWardCam @davesmeg @CriticalCupcake Defaults will never be right for everyone. Defaults are something where devs are damned if they do, and damned if they don't. If you can't give a user choice, then if you are in an IT setting, then maybe plain text is preferred. Many of us are not in IT though.

5 May 2023 at 12:30 | Open on mastodon.cloud

Menno

@ianp5a @TimWardCam @davesmeg @CriticalCupcake
Well, in MS-Word, it's a user choice to set whether to paste plain text, or formatted as default. It at least it used to be. We recently upgraded to new PCs and I haven't bothered to try fix it in our current version.

5 May 2023 at 13:45 | Open on ohai.social

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@MennoWolff @ianp5a @TimWardCam @davesmeg @CriticalCupcake

In Word 2013 (and possibly later):
Select the 𝑭𝒊𝒍𝒆 tag on the toolbar.
Select 𝑶𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔.
Select 𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒅 and it's top of the 𝑪𝒖𝒕, 𝒄𝒐𝒑𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆 options. See below

5 May 2023 at 14:02 | Open on mastodonapp.uk

Dave_Smeg

@TimWardCam @ianp5a @CriticalCupcake I think that when using right-click to select "copy" there should be an option of "copy with formatting."

5 May 2023 at 12:30 | Open on ohai.social

Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

@davesmeg @ianp5a @CriticalCupcake That's not how the Windows clipboard works - the "cut" operation should offer as many formats as the source application can cope with, it's up to the "paste" application to choose one that it understands. What we're discussing is what should happen when the "paste" application can understand multiple of the formats on offer.

5 May 2023 at 12:33 | Open on c.im