HughOSB Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 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. Quote
walt.farrell Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 Possibly the existing Edit > Paste Without Formatting or Paste Special would satisfy your needs? Callum and h2ox3 2 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
HughOSB Posted March 6, 2020 Author Posted March 6, 2020 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. Thanks for the tip. Quote
dominik Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 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. Quote Affinity Suite on Windows (V2) and iPad (V2). Beta testing when available. Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil
walt.farrell Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 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 fde101 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Mandu Posted March 9, 2020 Posted March 9, 2020 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. Quote
dominik Posted March 9, 2020 Posted March 9, 2020 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. Quote Affinity Suite on Windows (V2) and iPad (V2). Beta testing when available. Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil
Move Along People Posted March 9, 2020 Posted March 9, 2020 - HughOSB 1 Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here
HughOSB Posted March 9, 2020 Author Posted March 9, 2020 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. Move Along People 1 Quote
carl123 Posted March 9, 2020 Posted March 9, 2020 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 Move Along People 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
HughOSB Posted March 9, 2020 Author Posted March 9, 2020 I have never been confident with custom shortcuts or macros. Thus my desire for the crutch of right-clicking. Quote
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