Bullets copied by mistake

[Lothar_SA]

If you copy a word or some letters within in a paragraph with bullets, the bullet and tab is always copied too.   Inserting it in "Search and replace" you always have to delete the bullet and the tab. 

I also noticed, that the bullet will be updated to the hyperlink style, if the first word in the paragraph will become a hyperlink. I think, this is a bug too. 

 

I am using Windows: 10Pro: Affinity Publisher 1.8.3.641

[Gabe]

Hi @Lothar_SA,

Sorry for the delayed reply.

On 5/15/2020 at 7:10 AM, Lothar_SA said:

If you copy a word or some letters within in a paragraph with bullets, the bullet and tab is always copied too.   Inserting it in "Search and replace" you always have to delete the bullet and the tab. 

This is standard behaviour in any apps. If you only want to paste just the text, Paste without Format

On 5/15/2020 at 7:10 AM, Lothar_SA said:

I also noticed, that the bullet will be updated to the hyperlink style, if the first word in the paragraph will become a hyperlink. I think, this is a bug too. 

Not entirely sure what you mean by this. 

[Lothar_SA]

Hi Gabe, 

it is not a standard behaviour at all, neither in Word or Indesgin and not even in Affinity Publisher itself. Maybe there is a misunderstanding: 

If I  want to search for a word I mark and copy it:

I paste it in the find form 

and this is the result:

There is no way to paste the text without the bullet and tab, at least I couldn't find it. CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+V doesn't work.

If it would be a standard behaviour, it should paste the bullet and tab also when I paste the word into another sentence in publisher, which it doesn't. But pasting it in an email or any other text editor, you get the bullet and the tab. No other word processor I know behaves like this. 

Even if it would be standard behaviour, it would not make any sense in this case - if I mark a word that I am Iooking for it is obvious, that I never look for this word with a bullet and tab in front of it.

 

About the style update of the bullet - looks like the bug was addressed in the last update, didn't check it until now.

 

[A_B_C]

You are right, Lothar. It should by no means paste bullet + tab + [search term] in the search field. 😕

Alternatively though, you can simply select the search term in your text frame and use Text > Find … (Cmd + F). This will only paste the search term to the search field. 😀

[Lothar_SA]

Thanks for this tip - it helps a lot.!

[Gabe]

Sorry. I completely missed the "Find and replace" bit. I thought you were taking about normal copy/paste between text frames. You are right, when you paste it in the find and replace, it should not paste the bullet point. Issue logged