[Maced] copy paste text into filemaker 6

[David Jones]

Adam,
This won't be helpful to you now, but file it away in the good ideas closet.
An auto enter calculation can be used in FM 7+ to strip out the font, size
and style info when the user inputs the the text.

If your field is called "MyText" then set it's auto enter calculation to
Evaluate(Quote(MyText)). Make sure to UNCHECK the "Do not replace existing
value (if any)"
check box.

Now any time a user (or a script for that matter) puts any text in
the MyText field the auto-enter calc will replace it with the result
of the calc.  Which in this case is the same value minus all the
styles, sizes and font info.

Regards,
David Jones
IT Systems Manager
Scotch College Adelaide


On 30/5/08 9:02 PM, "Adam van Raad" <adamvr at tpg.com.au> 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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