But this time, when I pasted, the data I copied appeared above the intended cell, and a little anchor icon appeared. The text appeared in a box with green squares on the edges. Moving the green dots scaled the text as an image!
So I copied the cell again, and this time tried using Paste Special. The options I got were:
- PNG Bitmap
- Bitmap
Next, I opened up mate-terminal, copied the cell again, and tried pasting it into the terminal. Nothing.
Then I opened up GIMP and tried pasting into that. The cell appeared, rendered as an image.
Was it an X11 problem? I tried copying some text around within mate-terminal, and that still worked, so nope. Calc must be the thing that's deciding to copy cells as an image.
Then I went back to Calc and tried copying through the menu: Edit -> Copy (Ctrl+C). The cell was still converted into an image upon copying.
Apparently, something has snapped, and as a result, Calc has decided that "Copy" means render the cells as an image and then copy the image. That leaves me with no way to work with formulas.
I haven't changed the installation of OpenOffice at all. It's manually installed at /opt/openoffice4, because Debian only includes LibreOffice, which
has introduced some horrible bugs into their implementation of formulas.
I tried Googling the problem, which led to some pages on how to paste images into OpenOffice calc, which I have already accidentally discovered how to do.
How do I get normal copying behavior back?