Paste text and have it take on current styles?

[Phrasikleia]

It is possible in Word to paste text into a tagged paragraph and have the pasted text take on the current styles of the paragraph. Is this possible in Mellel, or does one have to select and tag the pasted text manually?

[nicka]

Yes. Edit>Paste special...>Plain text. The shortcut key combination is ShiftAppleOptionV.

[suavito]

It's the standard Mac way: cmd+v pastes and keeps the styles of the source, cmd+shift+opt+v pastes and matches styles. Which means that if the pasted text contained italic or bold elements they will get flattened.

[daiyi]

Happy to learn this but embarrassed as a long time Mac user. Thanks for the information.

[Benja]

Hi guys,

I'm having some trouble with keyboard shortcuts too. I set up Cmd-Shift-V in System Preferences as "Paste Plain Text" in Mellel. When I fire up Mellel it works fine. If I quit Mellel (I think this is how it works), the keyboard shortcut is lost. It no longer works and is no longer listed in the Mellel Edit menu next to Paste Plain Text. It is, however, still listed in SysPrefs under keyboard shortcuts.

So, is this an OS X problem or a Mellel problem? Is there a way I can make it stick?

(By the way Cmd-Opt-Shift-V doesn't paste as plain text for me - it does nothing).

[Fire Angel]

Hi guys,

I'm having some trouble with keyboard shortcuts too. I set up Cmd-Shift-V in System Preferences as "Paste Plain Text" in Mellel. When I fire up Mellel it works fine. If I quit Mellel (I think this is how it works), the keyboard shortcut is lost. It no longer works and is no longer listed in the Mellel Edit menu next to Paste Plain Text. It is, however, still listed in SysPrefs under keyboard shortcuts.

So, is this an OS X problem or a Mellel problem? Is there a way I can make it stick?

(By the way Cmd-Opt-Shift-V doesn't paste as plain text for me - it does nothing).

Your second problem is familiar; you need to check to see if an application is redefining that key combination. This is almost always the problem when a standard system key combination doesn't work. What the first problem is I have less idea, but it might be a similar problem, that the key combination is already defined elsewhere and Mellel is only able to temporarily "kidnap' it.