Inheriting formats when pasting

[Baruch Brodersen]

Hi Andy,
Backup the maker.ini file, and then edit the "ClipboardFormatsPriorities="
line so that "TEXT" appears first.
Best,
Baruch Brodersen
Technitext Documentation

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Andy Kass <akass at jaspersoft.com> wrote:

> 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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