Inheriting formats when pasting

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Andy,

If you look in the maker.ini for this key, you can change the default paste:

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

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-659-8267
rick at frameexpert.com

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-----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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