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Oriana808
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November 23, 2016
Question

Paste text from Word onto styled ID text, picks up wrong style

  • November 23, 2016
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Sorry a little difficult to explain in a short heading. This has been driving me crazy for some time now. One example as follows:

This happens so many times in so many different instances, where the attributes of the space before is applied to pasted text, or even the attributes of the line before when it's the start of a new paragraph. The new text is of course picked up from outside of InDesign (Word, pdf, Illustrator, etc).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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    Jeffrey_SmithCommunity Expert
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    November 23, 2016

    In your Indesign Preferences, under Clipboard Handling, under When Pasting Text and Table from Other App, what is this set to: All Information or Text Only?

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    Oriana808Author
    Inspiring
    November 23, 2016

    Hi Jeffrey,

    Set to Text Only.

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    Oriana808Author
    Inspiring
    November 23, 2016

    Thanks for the workaround suggestion, that's exactly what I do! However sometimes I'm dealing with very long, complex documents and really don't have time to fuss like this (in Canada we have to create everything in two languages, so the need to flow in copy over existing styles is crucial). Also it doesn't happen all of the time, so I'm left to guess.

    Should not be this way, that's all I can say. Highly inefficient.

    Thanks for your help at any rate, appreciated


    When a word is selected in InDesign and has specific character attributes, there should be absolutely no reason why the styles from the insertion point is picked up.

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