Thanks for the input so far, I had forgotten about that setting in maker.ini. Mine was already set (in Program files, not overridden in my User files):
; notice there's no OLE ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIFW, MIF, RTF, UNICODE TEXT So that appears to work only for external clipboard sources. Maybe there's still time to fix this in FM10 :-) Please? Thanks, Andy ----- "Jeff Coatsworth" <jeff.coatswo...@jonassoftware.com> wrote: > 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-boun...@lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Andy Kass > Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 12:54 PM > To: framers@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 > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as > jeff.coatswo...@jonassoftware.com. > > Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/jeff.coatsworth%40jonassoftware.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.