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Hugohirni
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October 1, 2009
Question

automatically copy only the unicode-Text from a Word-Document into FM8

  • October 1, 2009
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In my daily work I often have the problem to copy and paste text from a  Word-Document or other documents into my FrameMaker documents.

The common way is to copy it in Word and "Special Paste" it in FrameMaker 8 as unicode. But this is not as confortable as to shortly hit Ctrl-v on the keyboard.

I would like to have a new menuitem to special paste only the unicode text from the clipbopard. Is there a way to make such a makro and to put it in the menubar with a Key-Trigger?

I read something like that in http://www.rzg.mpg.de/from_external/Frame6_Handbuch/Setting_up_FrameMaker.pdf (german), but I actually don't know what to chage for my case.

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    NL_Derek-GsBV5a
    Inspiring
    October 2, 2009

    I don't know how it interfaces with unicode, but I use the freeware PureText http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/.

    As default, it attaches to Win-V, and is equivalent to dragging the text on the clipboard through Notepad. Works wonderfully.

    --- Derek

    David_Crowe
    David_Crowe
    Inspiring
    October 1, 2009

    Rather than create a new menu item (possible, I gather, but fiddly) I would recommendchanging the default “paste” behaviour.

    In the MAKER.INI file there is a line beginning

    ClipboardFormatsPriorities=

    Change this to put UNICODE TEXT as the first item.

    Ctrl-v will then paste Unicode text by default. You can still access the other options, should you need to, by using Paste Special.

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    Art_Campbell1
    Inspiring
    October 1, 2009

    And then use the keyboard shortcut to Paste Special: Ctrl + e s t (for text -- you may need a u for unicode here).

    Art

    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    October 1, 2009

    An alternate shortcut for pasting unicode text is:

    ctrl+shift+v (which brings up the paste special window)

    U (which moves the selection to "Unicode text")

    and then Enter (which triggers the OK button)

    Note: typing the first character cycles through all of the matches in the list for the Paste special (and in most other FM selection lists).

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