How can I clone text in a document but have the cloned copy display with different formatting? [closed]

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I'm not really familiar with this. But there are basic capabilities in Writer with regard to what 'His Lordship' seems aiming at. If You supply a template You may enclose 'Input Fields' everyone of which will prompt the user creating his specific document from that template to enter values for the referenced variables. These can be called with their values by other fields, contained in a 'layout frame' e.g.

This is not very comfortable but it might do.

One specific problem may arise: The prompting dialogue for input fields allows for "too much editing", inserting new lines specifically. Please note: I cannot give better advice. I used such features in Writer (an in Word) only very few times. (Don't like foolpfroofness, maybe.)

A more comfortable (and foolproof) solution with Writer might require some true programming.

Try the attached example s'il vous plaît. InputFieldExample001.ott

Back to business: I surely would prefer doing this with the help of Calc instead of Writer. Everything is easier. We may even trim off extra spaces and extra line breaks without an effort. Adding an additional layout to offer is just a piece of cake ... Look into the second attachment if interested. I hope I met your customers' fancies. ask39867SubmissionToLayout001.ods

Edit: (Answering the recent update of the original question)

Please be sure, I actually read your "EDITED WITH FEEDBACK". But I don't think I need to know much more about your intentions. Did you (HL Pierre) try using Calc? (See attached file above as an example. I think everything you might want should be possible that way - and, of course, everything you neither want nor need can easily be omitted. The necessary adaptions should be obvious. If your customer will enter spaces, e.g., you just use TRIM() and they get ignored. You will let him see a rough layout and can also have a cell passing to you what you need: the unformatted text without extra spaces ... and using CLEAN() will also ignore tabs and line breaks ... You may even delete "xy)" or parts in parentheses and, of course you can have another cell where the cleaned input is concatenated into 3 lines from where you may copy it for pasting. Just study Calc a little bit.

Editing again: As advertised in my recent comment I attach a somehow reworked version of my example. Of course the target application for pasting everything in one step must accept LF (ASCII 10) for 'NewLine'. ask39867SubmissionToLayoutSingleCellCopyPaste002.ods Please regard Cell B20 which is containing an example of "preparing for a single copy/paste".

Edit: Answering a comment by HL Pierre from 2014-09-25.

FontColour White? That's very strange. I cannot perform any test with Corel I not have access to. It seems to misinterpret a property passed to the intermediary storage of the copied text. The cell B20 of the final example is formatted with 'Format Cells' > 'Font Effects' > 'Font colour': 'Automatic':

Two ideas:

1) Corel might offer something ... (more)