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

[Hugohirni]

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.

[David_Crowe]

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.

[Art_Campbell1]

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]

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).

[NL_Derek-GsBV5a]

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