<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Seems to do the trick - yipee! One down, two to go!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks Juan :-)<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On 16 Aug 2011, at 11:01, Juan J. Martínez wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 10:53 +0100, Emily Maher wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">[...]<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Text formatting<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">When copying and pasting text from one text box to another, the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">formatting disappears/defaults. This is a particular problem with text<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">that contains bullet points – bullet points appear where I had none<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and disappear from where I did, they also change colour! It also<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sometimes happens when dragging slides from one presentation to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">another. <br></blockquote><br>Have you tried "Paste special"? If I recall correctly is CTRL + SHIFT +<br>v. In that way you get a dialog with different options.<br><br>When you copy something it goes to the clipboard, including some<br>metadata information (such as styles). LibreOffice (OpenOffice) can<br>guess what you want to do, but it's unlikely you're going to be happy<br>every time. So that "paste special" functionality is very useful!<br><br>My 0.2 cents!<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Juan<br><br><br><br><br>-- <br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk<br>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; "><b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; "><b><br></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; "><b>Emily Maher</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; ">Graphic designer</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; "><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; display: inline !important; ">Communications team</div></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; "><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; display: inline !important; ">Canonical UK ltd</div></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; "><a href="mailto:emily.maher@canonical.com">emily.maher@canonical.com</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Neue Helvetica BQ'; "><irc>emily</div></span></span> </div> <br></div></body></html>