Clipboard problem with Word and LC

[J. Landman Gay]

On 10/16/2015 12:19 AM, Charles Szasz wrote:
> I have been struggling with a font/clipboard problem for four days.
> The following script works great on the Mac (Yosemite) and LC 5.5.5
> placing text from a field “preview” onto to a clipboard and then
> pasted into a word processing document. The type of font and font
> size is set from the font menu in an option button.
>
> But on Windows XP and Windows 8 the Windows app continues to give a
> Tahoma font and 9 point size font for all of the fonts when pasted
> into the Windows version of Open Office.

This sounds to me like OO is overriding the clipboard styling and 
replacing it with the document default styles. I know LC keeps the 
styling when transfering text to the clipboard, and I assume its RTF 
text is compatible.

Does anyone have experience with Open Office?

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