Pasting Without Style

[rlinsurf]

Hi--

I'm in FMP 6.0.4 in 10.2.8. I have a bunch of fields with specifc formatting, such as font and font size, but when I paste text into those fields, the formatting is always that of the original source.

More than that, in a portal, a related field is coming up with the formatting of that field in the original file, not the portal.

Is there any way I can get this to stop -- it's really a pain.

All My Best,

Jeffrey

[Vaughan]

Set Field [] strips all formatting. Create a little script that sets the field's contents back into itself.

On a Mac, Option-Paste enables the Paste without style command. There must be a sinilar command on Windows -- perhaps Shift?

[rlinsurf]

Thanks, Vaughn--That will help quite a bit. But actually, the worst problem I'm having is with Drag-and-Drop. Will Option-Drag and Drop work??

All My Best,

Jeffrey

[Vaughan]

Prolly not. A quick work around is to put a button next to the field that says "Reset Formatting" or something, which performs the script

Set Field [field, =field]

That way you can drag and drop, then click the button to zap the pesky text back into shape.