Indesign styles question

[da_alchemist]

Hey guys

Whenever I copy text in InDesign and paste it inside a separate text box with a different style, the style from the text box I copied is transferred over to the second text box.

Anyone know of a way to copy and paste just the text and not the style?

Its kind of annoying because everytime I paste I have to manually go in and change back the style of the text box.

thanx for any help

[benwa02]

I am not so sure about copying text without the styles but I dont have indesign open to check for ya.

You have a style for your new text box right? Why dont you just click on that style to have it changed. Or am I being too obvious.

Anyways hope that helps.

[da_alchemist]

I am not so sure about copying text without the styles but I dont have indesign open to check for ya.

You have a style for your new text box right? Why dont you just click on that style to have it changed. Or am I being too obvious.

Anyways hope that helps.


Thanx for the reply. I could just change the style back by clicking on the style in the styles palette but its really annoying if I have to do it hundreds of times. I do some heavy desktop publishing so I try to minimize repetition as much as I can.

[AuPhalanx]

I found this whilst searching the InDesign CS help files.

To preserve formatting attributes when pasting from other applications:
Choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences > General (Mac OS).
Select Preserve Text Attributes When Pasting, and then click OK.

I hope that this works. I haven't had a chance to really try it yet. I, too, work quite a bit in InDesign. What you describe is annoying at times, but have to reclick the paragraph style hasn't been that burdensome for me.

Have fun... Tony.

[benwa02]

o sorry I didnt know you where doing it on that kind of level.

[da_alchemist]

I found this whilst searching the InDesign CS help files.

To preserve formatting attributes when pasting from other applications:
Choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences > General (Mac OS).
Select Preserve Text Attributes When Pasting, and then click OK.

Have fun... Tony.

Awesome, I'll give it a shot. Thanx a lot.