libre office copy formatting Ctrl+Shift+C alternative

Question

Microsoft Word has a very useful command for copying and pasting formatting. Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V

Is there such a command available in LibreOffice Writer? If not, is there some way of adding it?

Solution 1

Format Paintbrush is your friend:

You can set a (custom) shortcut key to it if you don‘t like clicking it: from the menu, choose Tools - Customize - Keyboard tab (a document must be opened)

Solution 2

There still (2018) is no keyboard shortcut / key combination to accomplish what you want. My current workaround is to draft the document in G Suite docs using the incredibly helpful keyboard combination control-alt-c. Perhaps the developers at Libreoffice could copy the code from G Suite docs, seeing as how it is open-source and all.

Solution 3

Just to clarify it is possible, you just have to set the shortcut:

 Tools -> Customize (Keyboard Tab) 

Then you can search for the command 'Clone' which is in:

 Edit -> Clone

And set the shortcut you want, for example, Ctrl + Shift + C.

Customize menu, Keyboard tab. Clone command selected and Ctrl+Shift+C shortcut assigned

(The image is in Spanish but I think it still serves its purpose)

Notice this command will work in a different way, when you activate it the clone tool will be activated. So:

1. Select the target text from which you want to copy the format.

2. Activate the tool (Ctrl + Shift + C), the cursor will change.

3. Select the target text to paste the format.

That's it! You're ready to copy those formats!

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Warning:
What I haven't been able to perform is multiple format pasting with a keyboard shortcut, for that you need to use the button with a double-click.

Comments

[Admin]

Is Paste Special what you are looking for? I thought pasting preserved formatting by default.

[Admin]

No, not just Paste Special. Ctrl+Shift+C will just copy the formatting of the selected text. Ctrl+Shift+V will then copy the formatting onto the (some other) selected text.

[Admin]

There are quite a few features present in MS Office that aren't (yet) available in LibreOffice. Copying and pasting formats seems to be one of them. In both Calc and Writer, Ctrl+Shift+C is unassigned. You can see the "bindings" in Tools, Customize, Keyboard tab. And in both Calc and Writer, Ctrl+Shift+V is "paste special". I even checked the LibreOffice extensions site but came up empty.

[Ashok Koyi]

Yes.. Its a shame

[user26742873]

Format Paintbrush can not be found in the tab.