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A really handy feature for me, found in many word processing programs, would be an option, perhaps in the right-click menu, to Paste as Plain Text. Copying from a word processor or PDF very often results in the formatting copied taking me onto another page!

Thanks.

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Possibly the existing Edit > Paste Without Formatting or Paste Special would satisfy your needs?

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2 hours ago, hughosb said:

would be an option ... to Paste as Plain Text.

Hi @hughosb,

in addition to @walt.farrell's suggestion you might want to look into this little Windows utility program: PureText (link: http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/). It allows you to paste plain text into any application with a custom keyboard shortcut.

There's also a description on how to do it on a Mac: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-strip-formatting-copy-paste-text/ (> #3.)

Cheers,
d.

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2 hours ago, hughosb said:

Well, I am in idiot. In all my searching I never saw it; too busy looking under Text I guess. I even Googled it and din't find it.

Serves me right for posting.

You're welcome, and please don't worry about missing it. We've all probably missed or lost things in these programs, or forgotten exactly how something works :)

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On 3/7/2020 at 4:59 AM, dominik said:

Hi @hughosb,

in addition to @walt.farrell's suggestion you might want to look into this little Windows utility program: PureText (link: http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/). It allows you to paste plain text into any application with a custom keyboard shortcut.

There's also a description on how to do it on a Mac: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-strip-formatting-copy-paste-text/ (> #3.)

Cheers,
d.

Simply pasting any text into windows notepad will make it plain and then copy/paste that text into any application will also make it plain. No need for some external programs.

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4 hours ago, Mandu said:

Simply pasting any text into windows notepad will make it plain and then copy/paste that text into any application will also make it plain. No need for some external programs.

This is true and is something I do when at another person's computer where I have to rely on what is available. But one has to consider Notepad also as an external program in regard to Affinity. Only that it is already there 😉

Cheers,
d.

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I should have mentioned that I am using a Mac. But having to copy into Notepad and then copy from there to Affinity is hardly an efficient workflow, when programs like Word simply have an option in the right-click menu to save without formatting. For my current project I am having to do a significant amount of cutting and pasting, and it is becoming laborious. At least I now know there is an option in the drop-down menu, itself another disruption to the workflow. The keyboard shortcut is four keys to be depressed simultaneously - it is like playing piano!

Thanks for the answers and suggestions. I am left thinking that a right-click option for pasting without formatting would be a workflow improvement.

Cheers.

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7 minutes ago, hughosb said:

The keyboard shortcut is four keys to be depressed simultaneously - it is like playing piano!

You can always change the shortcut to something else

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