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May 28, 2023
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how to paste without formatting

  • May 28, 2023
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Hello,

I would like to copy a text and past it inside Frame Maker without formatting (plain text), but I have not found this option in preferences. How to do it ?

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Jeff_Coatsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 29, 2023

Or you can edit your maker.ini to put TEXT at the beginning of this line:
ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, FILE, MIFW, MIF, RTF, OLE 2, META, EMF,  DIB, BMP, UNICODE TEXT

K.Daube
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 29, 2023

If you have installed my Enhanced Tool Bars, then there is also a small utility TextHelper which can be executed with a Hot key WIN+v to paste without format. With WIN+u you also convert the \ in a path to / for use in an URL.

Community Expert
May 29, 2023

Hi,

I use this tool to paste text without formatting:

http://stevemiller.net/puretext/

Very handy not only in FrameMaker, but also when you have to paste Excel cells without the Excel part.

 

Microsoft has the PowerToys collection of utilities. There is also one that pastes text without formatting.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

 

Best regards, Winfried

Bob_Niland
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 28, 2023

Edit ▼ Paste Special {pick one}
often available as a right-click operation