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Amuterasu
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March 22, 2018
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Pasting Text into Selected Text Frame

  • March 22, 2018
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I have 2 types of text. I've created a paragraph style for each one and applied it to some text boxes. I want to be able to take text that I've copied from an excel sheet, and paste it into the corresponding text box, but just the text only, no formatting. However, when I have the text box selected, and then press Ctrl+V (I have an alternative shortcut that when I press A, it pastes as well), it pastes it into a new text box with a different style. I know I can double click on the text box and paste it there, but the A shortcut won't work this way.

Is there any way to paste text into the selected box via pressing my shortcut? If not, can I do that with Ctrl+V?

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    Correct answer Laubender

    I know I can double click on the text box and paste it there, but the A shortcut won't work this way.

    Hi Amuterasu ,

    after the double-click simply do Ctrl-V ( cmd+v when on Mac OS X ). What's wrong with that?
    Pressing A as shortcut cannot work, because with that you always add an A to the insertion point.

    If you want to paste text to a text frame you need either selected text (then the pasted text will replace the one selected) or you need an insertion point selected to paste it to. If you have a text frame selected before pasting text simply double-click into the text frame ro select the first insertion point if it's empty.

    Any other alternative requires a script that you can assign a shortcut to.

    That script would select the first insertion point of the text frame, would paste the contents of the clipboard and would then select the text frame again if you prefer that.

    Regards,
    Uwe

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    LaubenderCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    March 23, 2018

    I know I can double click on the text box and paste it there, but the A shortcut won't work this way.

    Hi Amuterasu ,

    after the double-click simply do Ctrl-V ( cmd+v when on Mac OS X ). What's wrong with that?
    Pressing A as shortcut cannot work, because with that you always add an A to the insertion point.

    If you want to paste text to a text frame you need either selected text (then the pasted text will replace the one selected) or you need an insertion point selected to paste it to. If you have a text frame selected before pasting text simply double-click into the text frame ro select the first insertion point if it's empty.

    Any other alternative requires a script that you can assign a shortcut to.

    That script would select the first insertion point of the text frame, would paste the contents of the clipboard and would then select the text frame again if you prefer that.

    Regards,
    Uwe

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