paste special ...text option

[Steve Cavanaugh]

It seems to work on both clipboards from tests I just performed here.
Once installed, you get a system tray icon that is green in the center.
Green means strip the formatting.  If you click the icon once, the green
turns to red, which means the HOVtext tool is disabled and the clipboard
works as normal.  Click again and it's back to green.  That makes it
easy to go back and forth from normal behavior to clean text behavior.
I love it! 


Steve Cavanaugh
Sr. Technical Writer
NAT Seattle Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.combs at Polycom.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:41 AM
To: Steve Cavanaugh; Peter Rule; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: paste special ...text option

Steve Cavanaugh wrote: 
 
> There is an easier approach.  HOVtext is a public domain system 
> utility that automatically strips formatting from items you have 
> copied to the clipboard. So when you paste, it has already been 
> reduced to simple text.  I've been using it here for a while now, and 
> I can finally copy and paste from the keyboard without having to go 
> through Paste Special.
> Check it out: http://hovklan.com/hovtext/

HovText looks useful, Steve, thanks for the link. But does it acually
work for copying and pasting strictly within FM (which uses its own
internal clipboard, not the Windows clipboard)? 

Or is it strictly for Windows clipboard operations, such as pasting
something from another application into FM (which the maker.ini setting
controls)? 

Thanks!
Richard


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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