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Angela7
Inspiring
June 2, 2014
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How to NOT retain formatting when copying and pasting text

  • June 2, 2014
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Captivate 7 keeps the formatting from my text sources when I paste into a Text Caption which is not what I need. Anything I could find in the forums where questions relating to "keeping" the source formatting. I don't want this, I want Captivate to keep its text formatting when I paste text into a text caption. I even did a test creating a new project and using one of the Cap 7 themes. If I paste text in the default capture caption style object, it retains the formatting of the copied text source.  I have been working with Captivate 7 since a few months now and, until this morning, when I copied and pasted text from another source into my Captivate Text Caption, it retained the format of my Captivate Text Caption object. This is exactly what I need. How can I get this behavior back?

I appreciate any help. Thank you.

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Angela7Author
Inspiring
June 2, 2014

Just to let everyone know, I contacted Extensis, the company that sells the upgrade to Suitecase Fusion 5 Font Management. They asked me to remove all Apple updates and reinstall Bonjour Services. I downloaded that from cnet. I have no idea why this worked but it did the trick. I can use IE, Notepad, and other sources again to copy and paste text to Captivate Text objects without retaining the source formatting. However, you are right, Captiv8r, Word still doesn't work. It still retains formatting when I paste from Word and Wordpad. But I'm happy as it is  since my main sources are  not in Word.

Thanks to everyone

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
June 2, 2014

From which source are you copying? It seems strange, because I double-checked to be sure, and from Word formatting is not preserved at all, but takes on automatically the style of the applied theme. Hence my question. I tested on 7.0.1.237

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Angela7Author
Inspiring
June 2, 2014

I did use several different sources to test this (Word, WordPad, IE just copied form screen, etc.) and all had the same effect. My next attempt was to replicate my test on my other computer and I no longer had those reactions. It stripped the formatting. So it must be something that happened to my machine. I upgraded Suitcase font management this morning maybe that has something to do with it.

Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Legend
June 2, 2014

Note that Word and Wordpad are bad choices because there are formatting codes. So if you were trying to side trip via Wordpad, I would fully expect things to fail miserably.

Cheers... Rick

Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Legend
June 2, 2014

Hi there

Well, first I would report it as undesired behavior and possibly ask for an enhancement that allows us to right-click and paste without formatting. Do this using the link below:

http://www.adobe.com/go/wish

For now, you have a couple of options.

1. Perform a side trip. Open a text editor such as Windows Notepad or Apple Textpad and paste, then copy back to the clipboard. Then paste the text into the caption. (When pasting into the text editor, formatting is stripped)

2. On Windows machines, you can usually find a clipboard utility that allows you to paste as pure text. In fact, one such application is called PureText.

PureText Home Page (Note that I have no affiliation with them and nothing to gain if you choose to use the product. Just wanted to make you aware of it.)

Cheers... Rick

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Angela7Author
Inspiring
June 2, 2014

Thanks for the tip but I have the feeling it is some sort of bug or issue with my machine since it worked fine for many weeks. I already tried pasting it in Wordpad and got the same reaction

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