Sorry, Thomas, but no. This is about breaking an Office feature, not about performance.
Let me explain this in more detail. I'll use an example that you can try yourself, if you have Office 2016.
Preparation:
Open new Word and Excel documents.
In Word's preferences, click "View" and make sure that "Bookmarks" are turned on in "Show in Document".
Enter some text in Word, from which you will copy a text fragment.
Copy/paste the text a number of times, so you have multiple copies for repeating exactly the same experiment in different situations.
In my case, I entered this text:
First, make sure that nothing interferes with Copy/Paste: Select the text as shown above and press command+C.
If it remains as shown, everything is OK.
It can be that brackets appear around the text, like this:
This is a sign that some other component on your Mac has picked up the "magic flavors". As a result, Word now incorrectly believes that some other application has pasted these three words as a "Microsoft Word Document Object", so it marks the source object as a "bookmark".
If this happens as a side effect when you just copy a text fragment, you have some clipboard historian utility running that fetches the magic flavors immediately after each clipboard change.
I could reproduce this issue with Collective 2.0.2 (which does not yet avoid the new flavors of Word 2016), so I had to disable that.
Back to the experiment: If you copy the text fragment in the word document and do NOT get the brackets, everything is OK, and you can continue with the next step:
Switch to Excel, then select Edit / Paste Special…
In the list of formats, select "Microsoft Word Document Object" and click OK.
Results:
a) a new text object that floats above the spreadsheet:
b) bookmarks brackets around the text fragment in the word document, as shown above.
Word now knows that the text had been copied to Excel. I'm not quite sure what this means, but I assume that the Word document is now somehow linked to the Excel document. (Erik, can you clarify?)
Now the same experiment again, with the latest version of Typinator (currently 6.7b5). You can get it here:
The last official release 6.6 does not yet know about the new flavors in Office 2016, but the current beta version does.
If you read this when beta testing has been closed, get the final version 6.7 from here:
(You may be able to reproduce this with other utilities as well, but I am not aware of their current status, so I cannot tell for sure which version of which tool will ignore the new flavors.)
In Typinator, create an abbreviation with a "Formatted Text" expansion. The actual text does not matter. But it is important to use a "Formatted Text" expansion, to make sure that Typinator needs to use the clipboard, which involves saving and restoring the clipboard.
Variation of the experiment:
Copy text in the Word document.
Before pasting in Excel, type the Typinator abbreviation.
As above, switch to Excel, do a "Paste Special…" and insert a "Microsoft Word Document Object".
In Excel, the object will appear as before.
But when you return to Word, the text fragment now appears WITHOUT BRACKETS.
The reason for this is that Typinator removed the "magic flavors" from the pasteboard as the result of the save/restore.
Word no longer "sees" that Excel has fetched the data.
I don't know exactly what this means, but I suppose that the link between Word and Excel is now broken.
Whatever we, there is always the risk of unwanted results:
- When a third-party utility fetches and restores the magic flavors, Word creates a bookmark of previously copied text, even though it has not been pasted as a "Microsoft Word Document Object".
- If a third-party tool ignores the flavors when saving and restoring the pasteboard, Word no longer gets notified that a text fragment had been pasted as a "Microsoft Word Document Object".
I don't know which is worse.
@Erik: Can you confirm my assumptions?
Cheers,
gue