Text Frame Copy/Paste Results Odd

[rcallicotte]

When pasting text from anywhere (Internet or Notepad, for instance), the result is one column of text. This has only begun happening since the last build.

 

Edited February 10, 2019 by rcallicotte
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[dominik]

47 minutes ago, rcallicotte said:

When pasting text from anywhere (Internet or Notepad, for instance), the result is one column of text. This has only begun happening since the last build.

 

Hello @rcallicotte,

I do not see this behaviour. Text pastes as expected. Do you by any chance have set the formatting of the text frame in a way?
Do you first create a text frame and then paste the text in it or do you just paste somewhere in the document?

d.

[Seneca]

1 hour ago, rcallicotte said:

This has only begun happening since the last build.

Check your options in the Text Frame Panel, particularly, Insets, or if this is all 0 then you need to have a look at you styles, left left indent, etc.

You could also select the text frame and click on the Revert Defaults button.

 

[walt.farrell]

I do not see this behavior either, so it is likely specific to the text you're copying (or the application you're copying from) or the document you're working in. Try with a new document, where you create the Text Frame then paste into it without doing anything else first.

Alternatively, please supply a sample .afpub file that demonstrates this. Also, please clarify "last build" with an actual build number. 1.7.0.238 is current, at the moment.

[ToOldForThis]

Just for fun, I took @Seneca's post, copied the whole thing to clipboard, then pasted it on a blank page in my test document. The paste created a new text frame with lots of space between the lines--kind of expected, but everything text was in the text frame. Since my Options are set to show the overflow of a text frame, many lines of text appeared to be "outside" of the text frame. Resizing the text frame changes that. Doing a Select All (CTRL + A) in the text frame selected everyting inside and outside the frame boundaries to show that it all belonged to the same frame. Showing the overflow lets me see at a glance if I need to add another text frame to link to the first, or to make changes to the framatting of everything in the frame.

[walt.farrell]

Thanks, @ToOldForThis. I did know that one could simply paste a bunch of text onto a page and get an automatic Text Frame created. I'm rather impressed with that

 

[rcallicotte]

Thanks everyone!! I took the simple way out - set defaults to revert. This worked. As far as having set any settings for the textbox, I wasn't aware I had done any thing new. But, obviously, I did.

Thank you.

 

[dominik]

23 minutes ago, rcallicotte said:

But, obviously, I did.

Oh, I do this all the time 

d.