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Subject:Re: Shortcut for Paste Special->Text in PageMaker From:"Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:35:45 -0500
Neat trick, Steve. Unfortunately the query was about PageMaker, not FrameMaker.
Steven Brown wrote:
>If you generally prefer to paste from the clipboard as
>text, you can customize that preference in your
>maker.ini file.
>
>The ClipboardFormatsPriorities entry sets the format
>that's used when you paste or when you drop a file
>into an open document. The default is:
>
>ClipboardFormatsPriorities=FILE,OLE
>2,EMF,META,DIB,BMP,MIF,RTF,TEXT
>
>If you prefer to always paste as text, simply move the
>"TEXT" entry to the top of the list. Then you can use
>Paste Special for all other formats.
>
>You can learn more about maker.ini in the
>Adobe\FrameMaker\Online Manuals folder.
>
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