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ajimenez1-Visitor
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August 5, 2016
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How to paste as plain text?

  • August 5, 2016
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I am using Mathcad Prime 3.0 and I can't find how to paste inside a text block as plain text from i.e. Word to Mathcad.

I was unable to find anything in this blog or the help documentation. Thanks!

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dschenken1-Visitor
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August 6, 2016

I generally have to use Notepad as an intermediate for any number of programs which carry the font/size/color hints from one program to another.

In similar cases I've also used AutoIt to read and write the paste buffer to clean up text. It just sits as a double-click item to run and convert: Copy - doubleclick - paste. Not allowed on the current employer computer, so Notepad it is.

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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
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August 6, 2016

You can't. PTC apparently hasn't figured out the Windows clipboard yet. You also can't copy or paste any graphic except as a bitmap. You can do all of this in Mathcad 15, but I guess PTC hasn't even figured out how to port the code that Mathsoft wrote.

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VladimirN24-Ruby IV
24-Ruby IV
August 7, 2016

I do not quite understand what's the problem here?

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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
August 7, 2016

The problem is that you can't get rid of formatting:

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MJG1-Visitor
1-Visitor
August 8, 2016

Ctl+Space clears the formatting of any selected text (re-formats it to whatever you've set as the format of that text box).

Not a complete solution for what you're requesting, but possibly better than using Notepad as an in-between in most cases.

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ajimenez1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
August 11, 2016

Thanks Mark Gase, I tried this, and unfortunately it looks like only the color format was removed, nothing else.

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MJG1-Visitor
1-Visitor
August 11, 2016

It appears there are definitely some limitations to my suggestion.  If you copy a single paragraph at a time (no line breaks included in copied text), and paste it into an existing text box/block (empty or including other text), then Ctrl+Space will clear all formatting.  However, if you include any line breaks or try to paste into a blank area of the worksheet, then some formatting remains after Ctrl+Space.

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