Libre Impress - cut and paste text box results in Image not a text box

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#1

I read through some solutions to his problem but they do not work for me.
This behaviour has started following a major update by MXlinux this week and LO is given in the install?
Is it an issue of versions? Some text boxes copy/paste OK and others just paste an image of the text box. These text boxes have been created over a number of years but repeatedly saved by an updated system.

If I try to repeat the copy and paste several times it will occasionally paste the original text box but clearly this is not a lifestyle or a productive way to get a simple copy and paste of a text box

Any ideas gratefully received

Version: 7.4.7.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 40(Build:2)
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Debian package version: 4:7.4.7-1+deb12u6
Calc: threaded

#2

Try this:

Select the text box and copy it.

Switch to the destination location.

At the destination location, use Paste Special with any option other than Image.

#3

Thanks for the message and the possible solution.

The ‘paste special’ option is not available on the mouse shortcut which slows everything down.

It is available on the window menu but has no effect on the problem but pastes it as a bitmap rather than a .png image that the shortcut ‘paste’ gives.

As this is the first time to use Impress after the major update I had from my OS (MXlinux) I wondered if they had updated the version of LOffice too, as it was bundled with the original install. Might have to post a question on their forum too.

does anyone think a re-installation of LO makes sense?

#4

It might be a clipboard manager interfering with the clipboard. The update might have included one as a “bonus”.

Maybe try to disable it at startup, see this thread, https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=58396

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#5

I tried this and it has no effect, sadly

#6

Look for other clipboard managers…

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