Clipboard formats priorities

[Ridder, Fred]

But there *are* a couple of free Windows utilities you can use
to strip formatting from copied content under any circumstance,
including intra-FrameMaker copy and paste. At the moment I'm 
using a tool called PureText by Steve P. Miller, but there are
several other choices, too.

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com)
Intel
Parsippany, NJ

  

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On
Behalf Of David Shaked (Wernick)
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 7:25 PM
To: Framers
Subject: RE: Clipboard formats priorities

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
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Consultants