Copy & paste format

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most Mac apps with text formatting provide a <copy format> and <paste format>.

I couldn’t find this within DT3 - have I missed it?

** longer**

  • What I had done was create a rich text note using my text and text copied in from various websites into one Note.
  • the formatting varied and I planned to go back and tidy later
  • when evening came parts of the text went to light text on dark background parts remained black on white
  • couldn’t find commands to normalise the text to a coherent style
  • tried converting to various formats. ended up with Markdown (where at least my fingers know how to get it formatted consistently)
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There’s Paste and Match Style

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If you had used Copy and Match Style in the first place your note would have had a coherent style. But in that case you would have lost any formatting like italics as Copy and Match Style inserts only plain text.

The Script menu has a number of options like Body Normal under Format. The editor pane’s context menu has Font/Styles… and CMD+t launches macOS’ own font picker. All of these options allow to apply one font style, so again italics and such would be gone if you went for a regular font.

So Markdown isn’t the worst choice to make.

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Format > Font > Copy/Paste Font (and there’s also Format > Ruler > Copy/Paste Ruler).

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I possibly did this to myself years ago, I can’t remember, so apologies if it’s not a default Mac behaviour, but I have universal options of:

  • cmd+v is paste
  • shift-cmd-v is paste and match style

As these are universal shortcuts I don’t think about them, I use them in all apps.

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