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Affinity Designer on Mac:

When pasting text from a word document into a text field in affinity designer, it does keep most of the formatting.

However, when line breaks in the word document are not denoted by "enter", but instead by the size of the page, they are seen in affinity as an infinitely long line and will be pasted as such. Is there any way to paste text into a text field, in such a way that either, the original formatting is completely kept, or such that the horizontal size of the textfield is respected, and not just extended into infinity? Or is the easiest way to achieve this for me, by manually assigning line breaks by "enter" in the original file?

Cheers.

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The text should wrap within the text frame (if you are using frame text), unless you've set the No Break attribute in the (I think) Character panel.

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1 hour ago, snizl said:

However, when line breaks in the word document are not denoted by "enter", but instead by the size of the page, they are seen in affinity as an infinitely long line and will be pasted as such. Is there any way to paste text into a text field, in such a way that either, the original formatting is completely kept, or such that the horizontal size of the textfield is respected, and not just extended into infinity? Or is the easiest way to achieve this for me, by manually assigning line breaks by "enter" in the original file?

 

Use the Frame Text tool to draw the frame, don't use the Art Text tool to put a text caret on the page. Text Frame is a T and Art Text is an A

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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15 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Use the Frame Text tool to draw the frame, don't use the Art Text tool to put a text caret on the page. Text Frame is a T and Art Text is an A

It appears that both are on the same hotkey for me, and which one gets selected needs to be chosen on the left hand panel.

But choosing text frame indeed works for me. Thanks! I really appreciate the support on this forum!

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  • 10 months later...

Easy.

Paste in Adobe Illustrator first. All Enters will be line breaks.
Then copy that object and paste in Affinity Designer. All line breaks will be line breaks.

O why use Affinity Designer if you have Adobe Illustrator... right... 
Works with Microsoft Outlook as well.
Copy your text. Open new email. Use Paste -> keep text only. Copy. Create a Text box. Place cursor in text box. Paste.

 

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