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>the vast majority of users want to paste with formatting Oh, I highly doubt this is the case.
by moralestapia 5y ago
>the vast majority of users want to paste with formatting
Oh, I highly doubt this is the case.
- InitialLastName 5y agoIf you're moving sections around in a spreadsheet or a word processor, would it be more annoying if the copy/paste kept the formatting or stripped the formatting?
- ghusto 5y agoWithin the same application and document, it can make sense. That's not what people are raging about though.
- mohamez 5y agoExactly!
- bee_rider 5y agoI think it depends on your workflow -- I'd tend to assume the receiving end has some formatting, and it would be best if the copied text was fit that formatting, rather than bringing formatting with it. Ultimately though it seems pretty arbitrary, I guess they just went with the default that benefits what they assumed would be the most popular workflow. I dunno, we should all just use LaTeX to avoid these kinds of issues.
- wintermutestwin 5y agoIn a spreadsheet or word processor, you have Paste Special which allows you to be granular about what formatting, etc comes over with the paste.
- lucisferre 5y agoI think you overestimate the majority of users' ability to make good UX decisions.
- celdon25 5y agoHow does that affect whether they will be annoyed or not when they paste something and it includes formatting that has to be removed?
- Gibbon1 5y agoI don't doubt they want to. That's not the same as they should. I think actually you have three groups. 1. Most of the people on this thread that want default text. 2. People that carefully format documents. 3. Idiots. The first two find copying the style over to be super annoying. Both have to remove it as a second step. The last don't know any better. That latter group is much larger than the first two.
- twic 5y agoOn what basis do you doubt it?