clipboard retains FrameMaker objects/text but nothing else

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June 9, 2021
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After over twenty years of FrameMaker use with no issues to speak of, I am now experiencing a strange one:
I am constructing a new FrameMaker manual and have been copying text from older PageMaker and Word docs, copying that into Notepad to remove formatting, and then copying and pasting that into Frame and formatting as needed. Suddenly this week I find that if I copy anything from within FrameMaker onto the clipboard it stays on the clipboard and will only paste that into FrameMaker. Say I copy text from Notepad, having previously copied and pasted text or objects from within FrameMaker itself. I can paste the newly-copied material back into Notepad with no issues, but if I try to paste it into FrameMaker I can only paste what I previously copied from within the document. It's seriously slowing me down. Sometimes the problem clears up by itself, but most of the time I have to restart FrameMaker to clear the clipboard. This is only happening on my work PC (back in the office now) and not on my home PC. I am currently using version 12.0.4.445. Has anyone else experienced this?

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Matt-Tech Comm Tools

Community Expert

Can you use Edit > Paste Special, as Winfred mentioned?

I've seen this happen occasionally, but have always attributed to my use of Win and Fm on a virtual machine.

Keep in mind that Fm 12 system resource requirements are likely not being met on a "current" pc. If you were to go back to the OS you used previously, the issue would likely resolve. If it's a really big deal, you could run an older OS on a VM to get around this or other issues.

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

Jeff_Coatsworth

Community Expert

You can also try the maker.ini hack that sticks the TEXT copy option at the beginning of the string in the ClipboardFormatsPriorities= line instead of at the end - that makes a simple Paste act like a Paste Special plain text paste.

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Winfried Reng

Community Expert

I experience something like this as well, but in Excel and not in FrameMaker.

When I copy something from FrameMaker, paste this into Notepad++, copy the text from there and paste this into FrameMaker, then I paste what I had actually copied from Notepad++. Seems to be correct.

I use a small utility PureText. With this I can paste plain text without any formatting with CTRL+SHIFT+V. (You can adapt the shortcut key.)

http://stevemiller.net/puretext/

Or you could use Paste Special to paste only text without an formatting.