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Gustavo Fiorini Marques
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March 7, 2026
Question

Alternative plugin for ctrl + c, ctrl + v

  • March 7, 2026
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I used the richpaste plugin (https://indiscripts.com/post/2015/10/richpaste-copy-and-paste-with-minimal-formatting) in InDesign to transfer text from Word to InDesign using the ctrl + c, ctrl + v commands. It helped me maintain formatting without complications when I selected a specific paragraph/character style. However, the plugin seems to have lost compatibility with the latest versions of InDesign.

When I copy text from Word that is italicized and bold and paste it into InDesign using the Ctrl + X, Ctrl + V command, I select the paragraph style, but the font does not change. I need to either configure a character style or do it manually.

With richpaste, I could just select the paragraph style and use the “paste with richpaste” option, and it would paste the paragraph formatting and character style all at once.

I work with academic texts, so I need this process to be more agile, and richpaste helped a lot in that regard.

 

I can't use the Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V commands with the option to maintain InDesign formatting because when I select the character style, the formatting (italic, bold, etc) is lost.

Do you know of any alternatives to this plugin?

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    Community Expert
    March 7, 2026

    I use PrepText 
    https://github.com/firedevelop/id0000013-Adobe-InDesign-Scripts-Examples/blob/master/id0000088-Find-and-Replace-OLD-paragraph-text-with-the-NEW-Text/preptext.jsx

     

    Paste the text in, run the script, it applies the character styles, then apply the paragraph style, and clear the overrides. 

     

    It’s quite quick and easy to use.