[Maced] copy paste text into filemaker 6

[Murray Benn]

Hi Adam, Matt,

Much simpler is to paste with the option key held down - Cmd-opt-v.    
This pastes 'without style' stripping all the formatting.

If the data is already there, as you have said, create a calculation  
field = to the original field that contains the text.  One of the  
limitations (or strengths in this scenario) of FileMaker 6 is that a  
calculated field cannot contain formatting.  Put this field on the  
print layout instead of the data entry field, and you should get your  
default formatting.

Note that the current versions of FileMaker will retain formatting in  
a calculated field, so you have to take steps to strip the formatting  
to achieve the same result.

Hope that helps.  Regards,
-- 
Murray Benn
Managing Director
Denbigh International Pty Ltd
A FileMaker Business Alliance - Platinum Member
PO Box 3166   Narellan   2567
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On 30/05/2008, at 9:43 PM, Matt Darby wrote:

> HI Adam ..
>
> First of all not sure if this will work in FMP 6 (Its been a  
> while ...) but you can try this .
>
> When you paste the text into the FileMaker field, immediately press  
> Command-Z. Command-Z is typically used to undo something, and you'd  
> think that doing this after pasting text into a field would undo  
> the paste operation. But that's not what it does in this case.  
> Instead, it leaves the pasted text in the field, but removes the  
> formatting for you (Note that pressing Command-Z a second time will  
> undo the paste altogether!)
>
> this will leave you with unformatted text in the field. Then the  
> 'style; you apply on the report layout will work.
>
> however this may be a little difficult for staff to do...?
>
>
> Unfortunately as you said - no script steps available to to this -  
> you would need to move to FMP v7 or higher - then you could use a  
> custom function to automate this.
>
> thanks ,
>
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> On 30/05/2008, at 9:32 PM, Adam van Raad wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am having trouble trying to format text that has been pasted into  
> a field in FM6. It takes on the style (font etc) of the original  
> document but I want it to be a particular size, font etc to fit  
> into a comment box on a report. Is there a way to do this? I have  
> the layout set up so it has a particular font and size but it just  
> gets ignored when teachers paste comments from another file  
> (usually word). I thought I could use a script to set the font but  
> there does net seem to be any commands to do this...
>
>
> Thanks
> Adam van Raad
>
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