Old Bug: Pasting Note text into Powerpoint 2007
Hello,
This is not a bug new to 4.2a Beta 5. Rather it's been around for quite a long time, but I thought I'd mention it in the hope that it might be fixed in the 4.2a beta cycle.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Make a note in Logos 4 and include a Scripture reference, which turns into a link, and then continue typing some regular text after that. Then start a new paragraph in the note and type some more text.
2. Copy the entire note (Ctrl + A, Ctrl + C)
3. Go to Powerpoint 2007 and go to the note section for a slide. Paste the copied material from Logos 4.
4. You'll see that starting with the Scripture reference, the text looks like a link (blue with underlining), but this type of formatting (blue with underline) continues after the Scripture reference. All the rest of that paragraph becomes blue & underline. Only when there is a new paragraph in the pasted material, then the text reverts back to its regular black & no-underline.
By contrast if I paste exactly the same clipboard material into Word 2007, then everything comes across properly and only the Scripture reference link is blue & underline.
Quite frequently I take notes in Logos 4, and then transfer those notes over to the note section of a slide in Powerpoint, and then add some headings on the actual slide which correspond to the main points of my notes. However, it is somewhat annoying that the copy & paste has this formatting bug in it.
Thanks for looking into this.
Jason
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I'm seeing the same behavior. I'm not finding any reports on this, so I will submit a new report. Thanks.
Update: Developers found that this is a bug in how PowerPoint handles the RTF we're giving it. Since other applications, such as Word, WordPerfect, and WordPad, do not have the same problem, we won't be investigating it further. Our recommendation is to copy and paste the text containing a hyperlink into one of these other apps and then copy and paste from there into PowerPoint.
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