How do I "lose" font styles in copy/paste from Web?

[David R. Darrow]

Mac OS 9, FMP4

I often copy data from Web or email and then paste it into fields in my FMP4
database. Fro example and address and e-mail. Often e-mail addresses are
already formatted as "links" so they have that characteristic blue/underline
style.

When I copy and paste, that style "stays" in the fields I paste into in FMP.

How do I get FM to change the style to what I originally set the field to
look like without doing several individual font, style, size, color changes?

The style even follow through to other layouts that used the same fields!
Very frustrating!

Please e-mail me an answer as well as posting here, if you would.

Thanks,

David

[Tim Booth]

"David R. Darrow" wrote:
>
> Mac OS 9, FMP4
>
> I often copy data from Web or email and then paste it into fields in my FMP4
> database. Fro example and address and e-mail. Often e-mail addresses are
> already formatted as "links" so they have that characteristic blue/underline
> style.
>
> When I copy and paste, that style "stays" in the fields I paste into in FMP.
>
> How do I get FM to change the style to what I originally set the field to
> look like without doing several individual font, style, size, color changes?
>
> The style even follow through to other layouts that used the same fields!
> Very frustrating!
>

Hmmm, haven't really noticed this with FM, but I have with
a lot of 'smart' programs - I always shove them through a
plain text editor first, such as EditPad or NotePad...

Just paste, Ctrl + A to slect all, Ctrl + C to copy
again., then paste into what you wanted in the first
place, sans any styling that was previously there...

Cheers

Webko

[Bridget Eley]

Hi David

The Replace command can be used to set a field to itself for all records in the
current set - this will reset any text in the field to the default font/style
for that
field.

If there is one field that you habitually paste text into, you could write a
script that uses Set Field (or Replace) script step to set the field to itself,
then run the
script ieach time anything is pasted into the field.

--
Bridget Eley

[David R. Darrow]

Beauty!

I was able to create a script that executes the REPLACE command with a
"calculated value" that was itself...

in essence: replace field1 with calculated value, where the calculation is
simply: field1

It went through and set them to my predefined settings. My script does this
for each field I need reset, and does it in a fraction of a second.

I don't think I would have ever thought of trying that!

Thanks! --David