HELP! Hello I'm new at Filemaker and so far I love it. I do have this one nasty little problem that I'm sure is me just overlooking a setting or preference. What I'm trying to do is drag and drop text from a web page into a FM text field and have it take on the text fields attributes. When I take say Arial text off the web and drop it into my FM text field which is set for Helvetica it does not convert. It stays Arial with the same font size? I just want all text I drop into a field to auto convert to that fields text attributes. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thank you in advance

Hef

Hi:

Right-click on the field and select "Field Behavior." Check "Set input method to:" and select Syncronize with field's font.

See if that works and let us know.

I tried this and it still does the same thing. I can't get it to format the dropped text.

Thanks

Hef

Ok, then copy the text like you would, and when pasting, use Ctrl + Shift + V (or Command + Option + V on a Mac) and it should paste with the style of the field you have specified.

You da man... that works great! Thank you so much for your input. I'd buy you a beer if you lived closer. -) It still is strange that you can't just drop into the field... it seems so simple.

Hi,

Set the field to auto-enter and recalculate a calculation that automatically clear all formatting to the field and set the font to Helvetica + whatever the size you want.

I don't have 7 here for a test, but it should work.

Somethin like...

MyField

Autoenter calculation, recalculate

TextSize(TextFont(TextStyleRemove(MyField;"AllStyles");"Helvetica");"12")

Then, you should be able to drag and drop any text into this field and have it converted to what you want.

I like this for an auto-entered calc:

Evaluate(Quote(Field))

It removes all formatting (thanks to Murphy for finding that one.)

Yes Mike,

Very interresting indeed.