Greetings "Theo Zweers" < tjzwrs%40xs4all.nl">tjzwrs
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On 07/04/2007 at 19:44 you wrote concerning
Re: [PageStreamSupport] Copy & Paste
Hi Theo,
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TZ> Also found in PageStream5_##.rsc:
TZ> There is however also a "Select Text on Paste";, from which I have no
TZ> idea what this does, and where it can be found in the PGS-program. (You
TZ> paste something and select text?? I'm lost!)
Have replied in another post to the above.
TZ> I never ever copy and paste any text from Word or even text from a
TZ> PGS-document into PGS.
I can understand you not copying directly from Word into PageStream, but
avoidance of copying from a PageStream doc to another PageStream doc seems
downright questionable. The only 'problem' that arises -- if I'm remembering
correctly !!! -- is that PageStream may repeat some styles in the "copied to"
document. By this I mean:
You're working on doc Y, but there is some stuff in doc X that you want to bring
into doc Y. However, in both documents, you have a common style, called
BodyText, which you regard as "the same" but PageStream does not. There could
be one attribute in which they differ and you've forgotten what that attribute
is. If so, the excerpt from doc X may be styled by 'BodyText.1' not by
'BodyText' when it appears in doc Y. I have not found this harmful, but you may
not wish to retain both 'BodyText' and 'BodyText.1'. If desired, you can
highlight the new insert and then style it with 'BodyText' and subsequently
tell PageStream to get rid of 'BodyText.1'. If after 'BodyText.1' is removed and
a chunk of text styled by 'BodyText.1' still remains, then I think it reverts
to <No Style> but I've not checked that out recently, hence may be totally off
base.
If the chunk of text that you copied from doc X involves ten styles, each of
which has a counterpart in your doc Y, then you might hesitate to make such a
copy. But I have carried out such copies -- not knowing any better -- and hell
did NOT break loose.
TZ> I paste this in a text editor (notepad for Windows) so it is derived of
TZ> all text codes. And then copy it in PGS.
Works but clumsy. In PageStream you have to redo the formatting that was
lost.
TZ> First I must say that my text in PGS uses styles!
TZ> And even then, all the time, my text after the paste (the next words
TZ> after the highlighted text!) changes miraculous (and that's not what I
TZ> want).
TZ> Leave the pasted text highlighted (!), change the style into another
TZ> style. Then change the, still highlighted, text back into the original
TZ> style.
TZ> Now the text after the highlighted text is back to what it original was,
TZ> and the pasted text is almost what you want (you may change some text to
TZ> italic, bold or whatever).
TZ>; Hope this helps a bit,
Not really but I thank you for the suggestion. I've used the trick you mention
above many times, and "most of the time" it works, but it is not flawless. Too
often on returning to the 'desired' style, the unwanted changes reappear.
Cheers Don (Green Dragon)
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