Clipboard formats priorities

[David Shaked (Wernick)]

Never mind - I searched the archives some more and found that Fred Ridder
answered the question on March 2.

> Notice that the maker.ini item starts with the word "clipboard",
> which refers to the Windows clipboard. FrameMaker only uses
> the Windows clipboard when pasting content that was copied
> in another application. FrameMaker-to-FrameMaker copy/pasting
> uses an internal mechanism that does not go through the
> Windows clipboard. Internal copy/pasting always comes with
> the formatting intact, which I actually find annoying about
> half the time (for examle, when I'm making a new heading
> from a phrase I copied from the text).

> My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
> Fred Ridder
> Intel
> Parsipany, NJ 


David Shaked (Wernick)

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Shaked (Wernick) [mailto:david at almondweb.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 20:17
To: Framers (framers at lists.frameusers.com)
Subject: Clipboard formats priorities

I want to change the default Edit > Paste format to Text. Per the
instructions that appeared on the list recently, I edited the maker.ini
file. I changed

ClipboardFormatsPriorities=FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF, TEXT

to

ClipboardFormatsPriorities=FILE, TEXT, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF

and restarted FM. The revision seems to have no effect. I tried revising
both the user maker.ini and the master maker.ini. What am I doing wrong?

Failing this, is there another way to change the default paste behavior, so
when I paste text from one part of a document to another, the text will
adopt the formatting of the target location? Edit > Paste Special > Text
works fine, but it is inconvenient when performing multiple pastes.

I'm using FM 7.2 on Windows XP.

David Shaked (Wernick)

AlmondWeb Ltd.
http://www.almondweb.com
Technical Documentation * Web Development * Word and WebWorks Consultants