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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / July 2004Help! Cut & Paste
Hi all - I'm re-posting this, since nobody has responded. Does that mean there is no way of doing it? Can anybody confirm that for me? (so I don't waste time looking for a way that doesn't exist). Re-post below: Folks - when I cut text (Cmd-x) from Word in my Mac, and paste it (Ctrl-v) into Word on my virtual windows machine, the text itself is fine but it loses all formatting (font type, point size, bold, italics, etc). Is there any way to preserve formatting when cutting and pasting across platforms? (I know can transfer the whole file on to the virtual machine and open it there and then cut and paste, but I would like a shorter and cleaner way of shifting paragraphs, etc). Thanks. > Hi all - I'm re-posting this, since nobody has responded. Does that > mean there is no way of doing it? Can anybody confirm that for me? (so [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > cleaner way of shifting paragraphs, etc). > Thanks. After you cut and paste use "Select All" and pick the font and size you want. Perhaps you can use the preferences in the document to which you are pasting to have the default font to be the one you want. Marshall ³I don't do windows" Try Cmd-V instead of Ctrl-V. I vaguely recall that this will still paste in VPC (but have not tried it recently). Michael Paine >>Hi all - I'm re-posting this, since nobody has responded. Does that >>mean there is no way of doing it? Can anybody confirm that for me? (so [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Marshall > ³I don't do windows" Thanks for your suggestions. Unfortunately, I have already tried both of those options, and they are not the answers I need. Ctrl-V is indeed the command to paste into windows (Cmd-V only pastes into Mac), and it does paste - but the pasted text is plain text only, with all formatting (font type, font size, bold, italics, line spacing, etc) lost. And yes, I can re-format the text after I have lost the formatting, but that's a chore - it's not all one font, all one text size, all the same line spacing. The point is to save time by keeping the formatting intact. So the key question is: is there a way I can paste into Windows from the Mac and retain formatting? It's no problem from Mac document to Mac document, and from Windows document to Windows document; why can't I do it from Mac to Windows? Has anyone managed it? Any suggestions gratefully received. Thanks, PG. > Try Cmd-V instead of Ctrl-V. I vaguely recall that this will still paste > in VPC (but have not tried it recently). [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Marshall > > ³I don't do windows" Whoops! Sorry, I mixed it up. Cmd-V pastes from the Mac clipboard (which is what I want), but it loses all formatting. Ctrl-V pastes from the Windows clipboard, which is not the text I want. Still need the answer - pasting from the Mac clipboard into a windows document, with formatting intact. Sorry for the confusion, PG. > Try Cmd-V instead of Ctrl-V. I vaguely recall that this will still paste > in VPC (but have not tried it recently). [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Marshall > > ³I don't do windows" Thanks for the suggestion. My copy of VPC (6.1.1) does not have Paste Special in the Edit menu (or any other menu for that matter). Does yours? Normal Paste from the Edit menu pastes from the Mac clipboard, but loses formatting. There is Paste Special in Word's Edit menu, which does have the paste as rich text, but it pastes from the Windows clipboard, so that's no good. I'm starting to give up hope. :-( Perhaps someone knows of a utility that gets around this? (please?) Thanks though, PG. I was pretty sure copying and pasting from Mac to Windows loses all formatting in the process. To verify, I checked the VPC-Help and it confirms that "Text selections are copied unformatted. Any text formatting, such as bold, italic, or paragraph style, is not transferred" >Thanks for the suggestion. My copy of VPC (6.1.1) does not have Paste >Special in the Edit menu (or any other menu for that matter). Does [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >Thanks though, >PG. Steve Jain, Microsoft MVP for Virtual PC for Windows Website: http://www.essjae.com *** All posts are provided AS-IS, no warranty, no QoS *** Save your Mac documents as PDF files. > Thanks for the suggestion. My copy of VPC (6.1.1) does not have Paste > Special in the Edit menu (or any other menu for that matter). Does [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Thanks though, > PG. Marshall ³I don't do windows" Instead of just using (Ctrl-v) on the VPC side, have you tried Edit -> Paste Special? That usually gives you the option of keeping the copied formatting, but I don't have Word installed with my VPC to find out for sure. > Hi all - I'm re-posting this, since nobody has responded. Does that > mean there is no way of doing it? Can anybody confirm that for me? (so [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > cleaner way of shifting paragraphs, etc). > Thanks. |
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