Why can I not Paste from clipboard?

[The Chairman]

@DandyDon another thought is to use <ctrl><shift>&<v>. That forces the paste to be in "plain text". I find that I have to use that when copying from certain websites.

 

[Akimbo]

@DandyDon another thought is to use <ctrl><shift>&<v>. That forces the paste to be in "plain text". I find that I have to use that when copying from certain websites.

FYI to all: It is also an option on the Chrome right-click menu:

 

[The Chairman]

FYI to all: It is also an option on the Chrome right-click menu:

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Oh sure... give them the easy way to do it. I see how you roll.

 

[The Chairman]

@Akimbo I'm waiting on a definitive answer to this: Why can I not Paste from clipboard?

 

[Akimbo]

Oh sure... give them the easy way to do it. I see how you roll.

I use both, depending on where my hands are. It is also a good reminder of the Control-Shift-V sequence since I have to retrain after lunch breaks.

 

[DandyDon]

yeah, until you "save" it, it might be retaining the same formatting. The interwebs lives on unicode and Word does not. Getting the two to jive is the issue. Have you tried a different browser like FireFox? I think I'm changing to that based on how it handles images.

Odd, as I often copy & paste to Notepad to remove formatting.

Hmm, copy & paste from the Notepad document in question does seem to work on Firefox.

 

[diversteve]

There's some basic incompatibility between Windows 7 and Xenforo. They're never going to fix it as the Win7 installed base keeps shrinking.

The solution is to not copy/paste documents out of a word processor - either Word, Open Office, maybe even Win7 versions of Wordpad since they can add special formatting characters.

Always saving as plain text seems to help. That will eliminate any bolding or special formatting even when applied in Wordpad - and I think the font changes also.

To add that back into your post - upload it then use our formatting tools on the post toolbar.

We had similar problems when the board switched to Xenforo - older versions of Windows are not 100% supported by them.

 

[Akimbo]

The solution is to not copy/paste documents out of a word processor - either Word, Open Office, maybe even Win7 versions of Wordpad since they can add special formatting characters.

FYI to all: In addition to this and pasting as plain text (Ctrl-Shift-V), you can also switch the editing window to BB Code mode and paste formatted text from word processors, Acrobat files, and Web sites.

in my experiments, pasting from every RTF editor I have tried in Win7 and 10 and with several different browsers is not reliable for other than bold, underline, and italics. Indent, hypertext links, font size and style changes, justification, font colors, bulleted lists, and font heights are not reliable.

 

[DandyDon]

...you can also switch the editing window to BB Code mode and paste formatted text from word processors, Acrobat files, and Web sites.

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That works! Looks like the easiest workaround.

 

[Akimbo]

That works! Looks like the easiest workaround.

Glad it works. Just remember is doesn't work for pasting images unless you are imbedding an address bracked in BB code.