FM7 and OLE

[quills at airmail.net]

This is a default behavior in FrameMaker, and one that many users detest.

Fortunately, the programmers made it a behavior that can be customized.

Open the Maker.ini file in your FrameMaker directory.
Search for the string ClipboardFormatsPriorities

The list of formats behind this property dictate the preference of 
pasting a clipboard item.

Change the property to read as follows:
ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF

This will make your past from the clipboard use plain text first, 
then default to the other formats in the order listed.

This will enable you to paste plain ASCII text directly from a copy 
paste operation.

Scott


At 7:42 PM -0700 9/3/08, David Spreadbury wrote:
>We had the same problem, pasted text from Word going into an 
>anchored frame, until we noticed the 'other' right-click paste 
>option "Paste Special."
>
>This option presents a new menu of what the Special represents. 
>Select Text and it should work.
>
>--- On Sat, 8/30/08, Cal Callahan <calarts at san.rr.com> wrote:
>
>From: Cal Callahan <calarts at san.rr.com>
>Subject: FM7 and OLE
>To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>Cc: tnahal99 at yahoo.com
>Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008, 2:06 PM
>
>The problem is with MS OLE. You MIGHT work around it by removing SP3,
>although this didn't work for me. (That was the only suggested solution I
>found in an extensive search of the web.)
>
>My problem, however, was a little different. After importing a Visio file,
>all attempts to copy & paste text from a Word doc into Frame resulted in
>the
>text coming in an anchored frame. I got around it by running the text
>through OpenOfficeWriter first.
>
>I had no problems with Frame 8.
>
>I would very interested in hearing how anyone else resolved this problem.
>
>cal