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Is it time to unplug frail OpenOffice's life support? Apache Project asked to mull it over

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Re: Word Perfect?

If Word had "reveal codes" like WP, Microsoft would have never been able to hide the mess made by orphaning format codes during cut & paste and may even have been forced to do something about it.

Instead, it's been a mess ever since the irredeemably stupid decision to default to include format data in cut & paste operations - one, I'm saddened to say, is even harder to counteract in LibreOffice which has compounded that problem by adding a menu choice to the process to paste as text only, which makes it impossible to assign it to a keystroke without using a macro.

I'm not quite sure who took that decision, but if there is one major problem left in LO I'd love to see addressed, it's that.

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