Bug 124006

Summary:	EDITING: copy & paste from AOO to LO or between two LO instances fails for formulas
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Oliver Brinzing <oliver.brinzing>
Component:	Calc	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	79045_79045, aron.budea, gerard.fargeot, oliver.brinzing, raal, saywellaj, xiscofauli
Priority:	low
Version:	Inherited From OOo
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows (All)
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157606
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	102593
Attachments:	copy and paste formula between lo instances Paste special window

Description Oliver Brinzing 2019-03-11 19:20:47 UTC

steps to reproduce:

- open two instances of LO Calc, e.g. LO 6.0.7.3 and LO 6.1.4.2
  with same locale
- LO 6.0.7.3, cell A1: enter =Today()
- copy with ctrl+c
- LO 6.1.4.2: paste with ctrl+v
-> cell A1 shows number (e.g. 43535) instead of expected formula

same behaviour if copied from AOO 4.1.5 to LO and vice versa

copying from LO into Excel works:
- open Excel 2016
- new a spreadsheet
- cell A1: paste with ctrl+v
- A1 shows =Today()

copy from Excel into LO spreadsheet works too,
Paste Special shows options:
- Microsoft Excel Binary Interchange format (Biff8)
- Microsoft Excel Binary Interchange format (Biff5)

Comment 1 raal 2019-03-12 07:40:02 UTC

Works for me -  copy from 6.3 to 6.0.7.3 and vice versa

Verze: 6.0.7.3
ID sestavení: 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.2

Version: 6.3.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 732d630c3d2a168c725c18e4dd8df7a0a4f85566
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3;

Comment 2 Oliver Brinzing 2019-03-14 20:20:55 UTC

Created attachment 149977 [details]
copy and paste formula between lo instances

not working for me with LO 6.3 (dev build) and LO 6.1.5.2 (msi installed) - Win 10

Comment 3 GerardF 2019-03-14 20:39:46 UTC

Created attachment 149979 [details]
Paste special window

I can confirm (on Windows 10).
In both directions (LO Dev → LO 6.1, LO 6.1 → LO Dev)

In attachment, what I get if I use Paste special instead of Paste.

Comment 4 Xisco Faulí 2019-03-22 15:15:35 UTC

I don't think there are many users having different instances of LibreOffice installed at the same time. Let's change the summary to a more realistic scenario...

I can confirm it from AOO 4.1.3 to LO

LibreOffice 3.3.0 
OOO330m19 (Build:6)
tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4

but not the other way around...

it works if paste special is used. Reducing severity...

Comment 5 QA Administrators 2021-03-22 04:19:25 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

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Comment 6 Aron Budea 2022-06-04 22:15:52 UTC

*** Bug 148590 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Aron Budea 2022-06-04 22:19:59 UTC

(In reply to raal from comment #1)
> Works for me -  copy from 6.3 to 6.0.7.3 and vice versa
Seems Windows-specific.

(In reply to Xisco Faulí from comment #4)
> I don't think there are many users having different instances of LibreOffice
> installed at the same time. Let's change the summary to a more realistic
> scenario...
Maybe have both? It's important detail that not only AOO -> LO copy-pasting is affacted, but LO -> LO as well, if for no one else, then to the person who picks up this bug.