Writer/Paste and Match Style Specification

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This specification is for describing the UI additions and functionality of the Paste and Match Style.

Any discussion of the specification should happen in the issue, or on the discussion pages.

Paste and Match Style

Writer

Document - ID Specification Owner Last Change Status
Mox 2009-03-17 Draft
Conforms to
Applies to sw, officecfg
Task ID(s) 17563
Category Enhancement

Abstract

The Paste and Match Style command and associated keyboard shortcut (CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-V on Windows/Linux, Cmd-Option-Shift-V on Mac) makes it possible to use the styling of OpenOffice.org documents more efficiently and in powerfully consistent way.

The greatest advantage is that no matter where the copied content originated from (web page, another office program, ...) the styling of the document being worked on is maintained by using the styling of the target document also in the pasted content.

i-Team Members (The specification owner is part of the i-Team)

Name E-mail Address
User Experience Mox Soini mox@openoffice.org
Development Mox Soini mox@openoffice.org
Quality Assurance <Name + Initials>
Documentation <Name + Initials>


Document Change History

Rev. Level Change Initials Date
1.0 initial version mox 2009-03-17
1.1 updated dimming/functionality definition mox 2009-03-31

Glossary

Term Description

Motivation

While it is technically possible to achieve a similar functionality via "Paste Special -> Paste Unformatted", it is highly cumbersome and hard to discover. "Paste Unformatted" does not truly express what a powerful tool it can be.

User Scenarios

User copies text from a web page and pastes it to the document he works on. Styling Just Works. No additional work needed.

Goals

Make powerful pasting functionality understandable to users. Make it efficient to use pasting so that target document style consistent through-out the document.

Requirements and Dependencies

Requirements

Menu item "Paste and Match Style" under "Paste" menu item in "Edit" menu Shortcut key: CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-V on Windows/Linux, Cmd-Option-Shift-V on Mac

Technical Dependencies

Not known.

Competitive Analyses

Apple's iWork has this functionality and it's extremely useful and efficient for those interested in high quality documents.

Detailed Specification

See also requirements.

Menu item "Paste and Match Style" in "Edit" menu

  • Below "Paste" menu item
  • Above "Paste Special" menu item (if it exists)

Shortcut key: CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-V on Windows/Linux, Cmd-Option-Shift-V on Mac

Initial implementation relies fully on the functionality provided by the existing "paste unformatted" functionality. However, in the future this functionality could be improved beyond the simple unformatting of the source content.

String list

Item English German French Spanish Comments
Menu item Paste and Match Style Einsetzen und Stil anpassen Coller et appliquer le style Pegar con el mismo estilo


Error Conditions

Menu item is dimmed if pasting is not possible. Same rules as with Paste Special.

Migration

Not needed.

Future Tasks

In the future this functionality could be improved beyond the simple unformatting of the source content.

Notes

None at this time.

References

http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=17563

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