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digitalnoob
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January 29, 2014
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How to keep font type, color, size when pasting

  • January 29, 2014
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Captivate 7, Windows 7

Hi,

When I copy and paste text from a caption or smart object, etc. from one slide into a caption, or smart object, etc on another slide, the font type, color, and size all change. Since I have to do a lot of copying and pasting of text, this is taking a lot of time.

The type of font, color, and size are the default font for the template. So why is it changing?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks!

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Wency777
Wency777
Participant
June 15, 2015

Hi, I am not sure if you were successful in finding out how to do this. I am posting an answer in case anyone has the same problem.

I copied the text I was supposed to past in captivate and pasted it in a notepad. Copied it again from the notepad and pasted it in captivate. Voila! That did the trick.

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    June 15, 2015

    Thanks for posting your answer. As with any design tool that has object styles -  and Captivate has a good Object Style Manager - it is good practice to use only non-formatted text when copy/paste to Captivate. You can also export non-formatted text in other ways than using Notepad of course.

    Each theme comes with object styles, master slides and a skin. So often users even ignore the Object Style Manager which should be the first step before creating any project.

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    January 29, 2014

    A 'template' has no default font. The theme (which is what contains all the formatting) has object styles for everything: different caption types, shapes...

    Could you give more details? I cannot reproduce your problem, maybe post a screenshot?

    Lilybiri

    RodWard
    Community Expert
    RodWardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 29, 2014

    Have you checked the Object Style setting for the captions into which you are copying the text?  The Object Style of the target object will normally over-ride any styles applied at the source object.

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    January 29, 2014

    Really Rod? I see a totally different behavior: tried pasting text, that I had formatted, into another caption, shape and the formatting was kept: change of font, size and color.  Even when copying to special captions like quizzing captions, font formatting remained and there was not even an override + with the style. Something I miss?

    RodWard
    Community Expert
    RodWardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 29, 2014

    Are you talking about formatting applied inline to text in a text caption? I'm referring to the formatting applied to the overall text caption via Object Styles.  If you take text from one object with an applied Object Style, and paste that text into another object with a different Object Style, my belief was that the object style of the destination object would over-ride.  Inline styles are a separate thing.

    I understood that the original poster was not talking about inline styles.

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