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pierret18811376
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May 30, 2026
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how to paste with the same font

  • May 30, 2026
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Hello,

I have copied some text in Word (Arial 10 font), but when I do Ctrl+V in FrameMaker, it keep the same font (Arial 10 font). 

I would like that for this FM document only, when I paste some text from Word, it paste all the time in Times new roman 11 inside Framemaker. 

How to do it ?

    Correct answer Bob_Niland

    Edit🞃Paste Special…[Unicode Text]
    Ctrl+Shift+V
    will paste just the text codepoints, and the pasted text will default to the formatting of the target Paragraph Format (and any Character Format if posting into a string with that).

    6 replies

    Roland Bähr
    Roland Bähr
    Participant
    June 1, 2026

    Try Ctrl+Shift+V that should work

    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Community Expert
    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 1, 2026

    To set TEXT as the default paste action without having to go into the Paste Special section all the time, you can hack your MAKER.INI file by adding/editing this line:

    [Preferences]
    ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, FILE, MIFW, MIF, RTF, OLE 2, META, EMF,  DIB, BMP, UNICODE TEXT

    and put TEXT at the beginning of the string.

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      pierret18811376Author
      Inspiring
      June 1, 2026

      ​@Jeff_Coatsworth 

      Without modifying the maker ini file nor using paste special :

      When we copy some text from internet and paste it (Ctrl+V) inside Framemaker, what is the type of text pasted inside Framemaker (by doing Ctrl+V) : is it plain text ?

      So in that case, does Framemaker make a conversion from HTML to plain text (by doing Ctrl+V) ?

      Jeff_Coatsworth
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      Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 1, 2026

      Without changing the order of the ClipboardFormatsPriorities= line, Ctrl-V gives you UNICODE TEXT as the default. I was doing a lot of copy/paste from Word docs into FM docs and didn’t want the format overrides coming over, so rearranging the link gives you plain TEXT as the default action with Ctrl-V.

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      Winfried RengCommunity Expert
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      June 1, 2026

      Hi,

      I use a small utility PureText to paste without formatting:

      https://stevemiller.net/puretext/

      This works with all applications, also when you paste something from Excel into an e-mail, etc.

      Very useful!

      There are more apps which can do this.

      Best regards, Winfried

        Barb Binder
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        Barb BinderCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        May 31, 2026

        Hi Pierre:

        Even though I don’t use it for formatting, I keep the Text Formatting bar open like you are showing us, because it tends to be truthful about overrides. 

         

        Like Bob suggested, I use Paste Special > Text but I'm mostly here to remind you that you can use Find/Change to remove overrides in FrameMaker very quickly because they sure do love to sneak in. EDIT: Bob already mentioned that too, but it was hidden in the nested replies. Sorry, Bob!!!

        ~Barb

        ~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
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        pierret18811376Author
        Inspiring
        May 30, 2026

        In this other example, it is a pasted text coming from another app :

        when I select this text at left, Framemaker says me that it is “Times new roman”, but we see at left that it is not Times new roman. Why ?

         

         

        Bob_Niland
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        Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        May 30, 2026

        Examine it (just that selected text) in Character Designer.
        Using Paragraph Designer, the dialog (in my testing) showed the default font for the ¶format, and ignored the local override of the pasting.

        Of course, pasting in, with formatting, from other documents (and apps) can drag in all sorts of undesired overrides.

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          pierret18811376Author
          Inspiring
          May 30, 2026

          ​@Bob_Niland 

          For the same selected text, if I go in “character designer”, Framemaker says me that it is Arial 10. But the paragraph designer says me it is “times new roman 12”.

          What do you think ? Does the pasting has created an override ?  Why the paragraph designer is unable to see it ?

           

           

          Bob_Niland
          Community Expert
          Bob_NilandCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
          Community Expert
          May 30, 2026

          Edit🞃Paste Special…[Unicode Text]
          Ctrl+Shift+V
          will paste just the text codepoints, and the pasted text will default to the formatting of the target Paragraph Format (and any Character Format if posting into a string with that).

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          pierret18811376Author
          Inspiring
          May 30, 2026

          ​@Bob_Niland 

          Hi Bob,

          In Paste special, what is the difference between “Text” and “Unicode Text” ?

          Bob_Niland
          Community Expert
          Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          May 30, 2026

          pierret: In Paste special, what is the difference between “Text” and “Unicode Text” ?

          With a casual test on a string of Unicode BMP characters, it appears that it collapses the code points to legacy FM 8-bit character set.

          In my tests, “⏲⏰⌚⌛♺ ♳”all collapsed to question marks.

          Some random French, on the other hand, containing “àéôù” survived, so it’s not fully collapsing to ASCII.

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