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by evilmushroom 4583 days ago
You do realize that was for special pastes, right? Cells + functions, drawings etc
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ricardobeat 4583 days ago
It was a plain text field containing a URL, using Chrome.
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evandena 4583 days ago
Just a hunch, but maybe you had the cell selected and tried to copy that, instead of selecting the text within the cell?
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Pxtl 4583 days ago
... that's not really better. Requiring the desktop installation of Drive for trivial cases like that means that the web-application isn't really a web-application, but rather a desktop application that uses the browser as a GUI.
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aiiane 4583 days ago
Actually, that's due to Drive trying to support the system clipboard intelligently (e.g. such that if you pasted into MS Office, you'd actually get a table/cell structure, rather than just text). Browser APIs don't provide support for that level of copy-paste, so it has to be worked around.

Plain text copy and paste works fine without.

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mannjani 4583 days ago
I got the same thing copying plain text from a word document.
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