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why can't I right click on paste to paste text into the edit box instead of having to go to the edit-->paste drop down menu?
no one has ever asked, or is there a technical reason?
John
Don't think I've ever run across the right-click behavior you mention, but I just left-click in the box and then Ctrl-V (I never use a menu if there's a shortcut key available -- too slow!).
Dave
this reminds me of when my wife, a legal secty as a teenager, was told to use the function keys under Word Perfect. Her response was 'you mean I have to leave the home row?'
When I am a cuttin' and a pastin', I'm usin' that mouse thing. Ctrl-V (from Wordstar/DOS, which is what staff uses in our office), means I have to drop that mouse thing and use the keyboard. I'm just looking for a flow of motion, and I found it unusual that the edit box would be excluded from the use of the cut and paste mouse features.
John
I, on the other hand, avoid that "mouse thing" like the plague. I can still type a command line command faster than going through three layers of a menu.
Dave
I'm with Dave on this one. I find the mouse slows me down and interrupts my work flow more than anything else. Also, when selecting text, it's much slower and less accurate than the shift-arrow keys.
Virgil
Hi 
Different strokes for different folks.
I like switching and trying to navigate systems sometimes using only the
mouse and other times only the keyboard. Usually just for fun but i've had
a couple times when something temporarily went wrong and left me with no
choice. For once i was prepared and found it easy to deal with. Achieved
the deadline without having to wait for a reboot (it was on Windows) or
anything. One of my colleagues was amused most were really surprised to
find it even possible.
Hmm, now i tell that story i suddenly wonder if the break-down maybe hadn't
been so accidental after all! 
Regards from
Tom
John R. Sowden wrote:
why can't I right click on paste to paste text into the edit box instead
of having to go to the edit-->paste drop down menu?
I assume you're referring to the "input line" (where you can type formulas etc.) in Calc?
Being another one who avoids the mouse whenever possible, I'd never noticed that. You're right, there's no right-click context menu for that box, at least in the couple of versions I've checked (4.0.4 and 4.2.0).
no one has ever asked, or is there a technical reason?
I just went to report this on the bug tracker, and found it's already there:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57000
Doesn't seem to be considered a high priority though, so you might want to add a comment there to explain how it's affecting you.
In the meantime, a possible workaround is to edit in the cell (where you can right-click and paste) rather than using the input line, but you may not find that so convenient anyway.
Mark.
Thanks for all of the input. As long as its in the pipeline, not a problem. re: alternatives, this is how I use it-might apply to others:
Pay credit card on line
Copy verification number from web site
paste verification number to an empty cell
change font from not free sans to free sans
copy updated cell with verification number
(cannot add to exiting cell with payment description without deleting existing data)
click on cell where verification number will be appended to description
click on input line
go to Edit->Paste to paste verification number to cell data
press enter
empty cell with verification number only
I agree-it's not a big deal-there are more important issues.
Thanks to all,
John
Hi
Nicely done! Good to see it is a bump and that it's likely to get fixed
one day even if not soon.
Regards from
Tom
John R. Sowden wrote:
re: alternatives, this is how I use it-might apply to others:
Pay credit card on line
Copy verification number from web site
paste verification number to an empty cell
change font from not free sans to free sans
copy updated cell with verification number
(cannot add to exiting cell with payment description without deleting
existing data)
Yes, you can. Double-click on the cell to switch to edit mode (or press F2, for those preferring the keyboard), position cursor where you want to add text, right-click (or Edit menu) > Paste. This also pastes as unformatted, so you don't even need faff around changing the font if the cell is already formatted as you want it.
click on cell where verification number will be appended to description
click on input line
go to Edit->Paste to paste verification number to cell data
press enter
empty cell with verification number only
If I've understood correctly, I think that routine could be:
- Pay credit card on line
- Copy verification number from web site
- Double-click on cell where verification number will be appended to description (or click in the input line if you prefer, but then you have to use Edit > Paste since there is no right-click menu)
- Position cursor at the end of the existing content (or wherever you want it)
- Right click and paste
Excellent. Learned a new LO feature. By the way, when I copied the text that was in a different font, it converted to the font in the edited cell, a win-win.
Thanks,
John
Hi
The Marketing Team are trying to run a "Tip of the day" by tweet. This
means the tips have to be really tiny, but of course they can link to, or
suggest, documentation for further detail.
Can anyone here help create a list a of such snippets?
Regards from
Tom