Copy as Text and paste to other will be in confusion

[mengxin523]

Hello,
When I use the mode of copying as text and pasting it elsewhere, I will find that the top and bottom lines of the text will automatically add carriage returns, resulting in confusion when pasting to the target and producing unexpected results
eg:
I just copy the text: RSXMB_AGG_XPI_ADMIN
and paste to else where:

I select the first line and paste, but it will display in the second line!

[stevencohn]

Hello. From your screenshots above, it looks like you've selected those extra lines. But I can reproduce that it will add an extra line before the content that I've selected when selecting only one line. I'll look into that.

Alternately, you should be able to just use Ctrl+C to copy the content and paste into Excel, unless there is styling (bold, italic, color) that you do not want to copy over.

[mengxin523]

Hello. From your screenshots above, it looks like you've selected those extra lines. But I can reproduce that it will add an extra line before the content that I've selected when selecting only one line. I'll look into that.

Alternately, you should be able to just use Ctrl+C to copy the content and paste into Excel, unless there is styling (bold, italic, color) that you do not want to copy over.

No, I'm pretty sure I just selected the text and copied it, and inside the picture is the pasted result, with an Enter line before and after it,I am setting copy as text with the shortcut Ctrl+C
This problem is very difficult to use, please deal with it, thank you

[mengxin523]

I wish to filter out the carriage returns above and below lines, otherwise pasting to a single text box will not paste, and pasting to Excel will produce the wrong line
Thank you

[mengxin523]

SEE

[stevencohn]

I found a problem where Copy As Text would enter an extra blank line before the text. There should be no extra line after the text. Your first picture shows that you selected the lines both prior and after your text.

The fix should avoid anything other than what you've selected.

[mengxin523]

I updated the latest version and found that now when pasting, the carriage return on the first line has been removed, which is good. But the text will be automatically followed by a carriage return!! Hope to remove them all!

[mengxin523]

SEE

[stevencohn]

The next release will have a couple of minor adjustments to Copy as Text. However, it's not going to do exactly what you need at all times for two reasons. First, the command must be fit for purpose for the majority of users and not specialized for specific use cases. Second, there are limitations in what OneMore can "see" on a OneNote page.

For example, the following two selections appear identical to OneMore. There is no way to determine whether the user has selected the end of line character so Copy as Text must treat them the same - as if the end of line is selected.

But it does fix mid-sentence selections:

will result in just the word "sentence" selected without a newline.

[mengxin523]

Sometimes we copy a Shell command from OneNote to the Linux terminal, but if you automatically add an extra Enter line after the copy content, it will cause the command to be automatically executed after the copy is finished, which is very serious. Because copied commands often need to be slightly modified in the linux terminal to execute!
And every time I choose the text very carefully, try not to have a selection space after it, but unfortunately, pasting to the target will still be added with an extra Enter line!
I'm in favor of automatically adding an extra Enter line if the selected text is followed by a space, after all, users will copy multiple lines of text!

[mengxin523]

And if only the text is selected, not the final space, the copy function of the OneNote standard does not add any additional Enter lines; If the last space is selected, an Enter line is automatically added after it

[mengxin523]

Automatically adds an Enter line after linux commands, causing the pasted commands to run automatically before editing

[stevencohn]

Then you should keep Ctrl+C as the built-in functionality and only use OneMore's Copy as Text when you want to avoid copying styles to applications that know about styles. Copying to a terminal should not copy styles so the built-in system Ctrl+C is what you want to use. You can often "paste as text" into various applications that know about such things as well.

[stevencohn]

And if only the text is selected, not the final space, the copy function of the OneNote standard does not add any additional Enter lines; If the last space is selected, an Enter line is automatically added after it

I understand. But OneMore doesn't have access to the OneNote internals so can't tell the difference unfortunately.

[mengxin523]

Then you should keep Ctrl+C as the built-in functionality and only use OneMore's Copy as Text when you want to avoid copying styles to applications that know about styles. Copying to a terminal should not copy styles so the built-in system Ctrl+C is what you want to use. You can often "paste as text" into various applications that know about such things as well.

I don't have much need to copy OneNote styles and paste them elsewhere, I usually just copy the text out and don't need styles

[stevencohn]

When you copy content (either using Copy as Text or using the system Ctrl+C) it will create multiple copies of the content on the clipboard in various formats. If the content is text-based then, no matter which app, it will always add a raw text format.

Copying to a shell window will not copy the styles; it will copy the raw text.
To copy to Excel, you can use the Alt-H-V-M (Paste matching destination formatting)

Those are your workarounds while I consider whether the changes make sense for the majority of use cases. I understand your cases are important to you and I appreciate that. But I have to consider everyone and what their use cases are and have been. Thank you for your input.

[mengxin523]

I think it is important to note that this function is called copy as text, itself is copied text, there is no style!

[stevencohn]

It exists to grab just the text when there are styles, lists or tables. As explained here, "Copies the page or the selected content as plain text." For example, given this selection:

Will result in text that looks like this:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
* consectetur adipiscing elit
* sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt

        ut labore et aliqua     dolore magna
        Ut enim ad minim veniam Ut enim ad minim veniam

And, importantly, even though there are styles, it will not add formats to the system clipboard containing those styles. Even if you paste into MS Word, it will just be text. Compare this to Ctrl+C which adds all the following formats to the clipboard for other apps to consume: [[OneNote 2016 Internal, HTML Format, System.String, UnicodeText, Text, EnhancedMetafile, DeviceIndependentBitmap]]

[stevencohn]

I am going to make some adjustments. This likely suites your needs.

Note that this may cause others use cases to not exactly align with expectations. But, due to the lack of information from the OneNote APIs, OneMore simply can't cover all use-cases in intuitive ways, so some concessions are unavoidable.

[mengxin523]

Oh Thanks !
The reason why I particularly need this Copy as text function is mainly because the content copied from the OneNote standard will become an image when pasted elsewhere, and OneMore also has a function called Copy as MarkDown, which in my opinion should contain style

[mengxin523]

NEW ISSUE
Text in the table ,and Copy as text will not work fine!

[stevencohn]

This is fixed along with the work that will be released in the next version. The next version is not yet available.

[mengxin523]

I found that if the text in the table is copied, there will be a delay before it is pasted into other places. It will take several seconds before the pasted content is available. Before that, it is always the old content

[stevencohn]

If the table is quite large, ostensibly any OneMore operation can be slow. Typically, reading a large page is quick for most operations. But tables make the page much more complex since OneNote presents it to OneMore as verbose XML.

Writing to a large page, updating a large page, especially pages containing very large containers with complex tables and indents and drastically slow down due to the way the OneNote APIs work. This is a known problem and I've reported it to Microsoft but it doesn't seem to be anywhere on their priority list.