Paste unformatted text from the clipboard without linebreaks or styling

    From The Document Foundation Wiki
    < Macros‎ | Writer


    Other languages:

    Description

    This macro pastes content from the clipboard as unformatted texts after removing the linebreaks and styling. To use this macro in an efficient way, you can add a keyboard short cut for the sub InsertClipboardTextInWriter() at Extras ▸ Customize: keyboard.

    To paste only unformatted text from the clipboard you can use the general macro getClipboardText().

    Code

    ' Copyright (c) 2011 Frieder Delor, Mailto: delorfr@googlemail.com
    '
    '    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    '    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    '    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    '    (at your option) any later version.
    '
    '    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    '    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    '    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    '    GNU General Public License for more details.
    '
    '    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    '    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
    
    Option Explicit
    
    Sub InsertClipboardTextInWriter()
        Dim sText As String
        sText= (getClipboardText)
        sText = Replace (sText,Chr(10)," ") ' Replace line breaks with white spaces
        sText = Replace (sText,Chr(13)," ") ' Replace paragraph breaks with white spaces
        WriteCursorPosition(sText) ' Paste in Writer
    End Sub ' InsertClipboardTextInWriter
    
    
    Sub WriteCursorPosition(sText as String)
        '''This sub is taken from http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=75409'''
        '''Paste text in Writer at the position of the cursor'''
    
        Dim oViewCursor As Object ' com.sun.star.text.XTextViewCursor
        Dim oText As Object
        oViewCursor = ThisComponent.GetCurrentController.ViewCursor
        If IsEmpty(oViewCursor.Cell) Then
            oText = ThisComponent.text
        Else
            oText = oViewCursor.Cell.Text
        End If
        oText.insertString(oViewCursor, sText, false)
    
    End Sub ' WriteCursorPosition
    
    
    Function getClipboardText() As String
        '''Returns a string of the current clipboard text'''
    
        Dim oClip As Object ' com.sun.star.datatransfer.clipboard.SystemClipboard
        Dim oConverter As Object ' com.sun.star.script.Converter
        Dim oClipContents As Object
        Dim oTypes As Object
        Dim i%
    
        oClip = createUnoService("com.sun.star.datatransfer.clipboard.SystemClipboard")
        oConverter = createUnoService("com.sun.star.script.Converter")
        On Error Resume Next
        oClipContents = oClip.getContents
        oTypes = oClipContents.getTransferDataFlavors
    
        For i = LBound(oTypes) To UBound(oTypes)
            If oTypes(i).MimeType = "text/plain;charset=utf-16" Then
                Exit For
            End If
        Next
    
        If (i >= 0) Then
            On Error Resume Next
            getClipboardText = oConverter.convertToSimpleType _
                (oClipContents.getTransferData(oTypes(i)), com.sun.star.uno.TypeClass.STRING)
        End If
    
    End Function ' getClipboardText

    ODT file to test macro