My husband and I started a tradition of choosing a nationality each winter to explore its cuisine. I add each recipe to DT, and a journal in which I link the recipes. I have set my default text in DT to Helvetica 18.
My issue is when I right click on a recipend choose “Copy Item Link”, then paste it to the journal, it’s in a teensy font. Is there a setting I’m over looking to make it also Helvetica 18? In my screenshot, I’ve manually resized it.
Not sure, but have you tried this? ⌘⌥⇧+V
The font settings affect only new documents, not templates.
No… and I doubt I can remember that lol
It’s Edit > Paste & Match Style.
That’s it! Thank you Bluefrog, you’ve told me that once before, I’d simply forgotten. Much appreciated!
FYI most if not all writing apps (that do formatting of text) has this feature on the Edit menu.
As @rmschne says, this is a standard command in apps that deal with formatted text. And like many things, it’s a matter of habit. Simple muscle memory for me at this point; I don’t consciously think about the actual combination of keys. But you can just change the keyboard shortcut if you want to. I remember someone who changed it to ⌘V – to always use Paste and Match Style instead of a standard Paste.
Strangely, I can’t reproduce what you are talking about. For me, pasting an item link (just “Paste”) always matches the formatting at the cursor position.
PS. Instead of copying and pasting, you can also use the Insert Link utility popover, found under Edit > Insert > Item Link… – or with the keyboard shortcut ^⌘E (Control-Command-E).
I absolutely love these popovers! Especially the Go To Group and Move To… See: Windows > Popovers > Utility Popovers in the manual. As a mnemonic, they all have a keyboard shortcut of ^⌘ + some letter: Go, Move, Insert/Item.
(The Move to popover in particular has superpowers. Press ⌥ to duplicate to the destination, ⌥⌘ to replicate.)
Thank you! I will try your suggestions as well.
This group is always so helpful!
There is also the free app that BLUEFROG has mentioned before CustomShortcuts, and you can change the shortcut of edit > paste and match style to something you like and can more easily recall (you can change that yourself in system settings but the app makes it a snap).
