Inheriting formats when pasting

[Jeff Coatsworth]

FM10's not out there quite yet - I just tried it in FM9 & it's behaving the same way you describe. I remember doing a tweak to my maker.ini settings to copy & paste just text from outside sources (like Word) without picking up the formatting of the source, but I don't think it's making any difference with FM to FM copy/pastes. 

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Andy Kass
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 12:54 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Inheriting formats when pasting

Hi everyone, and Happy Thanksgiving,

Here's a FM 8 (p277) question for you to ponder, it's been bugging me for some time.

When I cut-and-paste between paragraphs of different fonts (or any other format), Frame remembers the source formatting, and pastes it along with the text. So our strict formats get all mixed up.

I usually just use Paste Special... to paste as text, so it takes the formatting of the target paragraph. It's rather annoying to have to do 3 extra clicks to do something as simple as pasting. But even that doesn't work if I'm pasting a cross reference or special character like a non-breaking space--they get lost when pasting as plain text. For that, I have to do a regular paste, then reselect and fix the formatting to Default P Font.

It seems that FrameMaker knows how to do this because if I do a search and replace with text that has special characters, they appear correctly anywhere they get inserted (though if you replace by pasting, you're back to the same problem).

Is there a way to configure "smart" paste by default? Do FM9 or 10 behave differently?

Thanks,

  Andy
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