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Subject:Chg the Defaults in FM ini file From:Harold Fichter <Hal -dot- Fichter -at- MCI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:42:00 -0600
Lately I have been doing a lot of
cutting and pasting during a revision
of a FrameMaker doc.
The engineer gave me a Word file to
use in revising the text in the Frame doc.
Since this is a large document change,
I am forever cutting and pasting.
I wanted to use the CTRL C and
CTRL V shortcuts, to do this I needed to
change the defaults in the
ClipboardFormatsPriorities list
of Frame. Here's how:
1. Open the Maker.ini file, located in the Maker5
directory, using a text editor that can save in text-only format.
2. Find the following line:
ClipboardFormatsPriorities=OLE, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF, TEXT
4. Move "TEXT" (OR ANY OTHER DEFAULT YOU WANT) to the beginning of the list, so the line reads:
ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, OLE, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF
NOTE: Entries in the list must be separated by commas.
5. Save the Maker.ini file in text-only format.
6. Restart FrameMaker.
