Pasting Text

Paste text

You can paste text at your insertion point or in place of a selection.

► choose the menu command: Edit > Paste

► press ⌥ and from the Clipboard tag on the Status Bar choose the menu command: Paste

► press ⌃ or “right click” your mouse or “secondary click” your trackpad and choose the menu command: Paste.

☞ As explained in the section on Drag and Drop on page 54, you can simply drag a selection from one location to another in the current document or to another document. If you press ⌥ as you drag you can put a copy of the selection in the new location.

Just as Nisus Writer Pro enables you to append text to the Clipboard, you can also swap what you have in the Clipboard with what you have selected in your document.

1. Put your insertion point where you want to have the text appear.

2. Either…

► choose the menu command: Edit > Swap Paste

► press ⌥ and from the Clipboard tag on the Status Bar choose the menu command: Swap Paste

► press ⌃ or “right click” your mouse or “secondary click” your trackpad and choose the menu command: Swap Paste
…to swap the current selection with the contents of the current Clipboard.

Paste text only, not its formatting

You can paste text at your insertion point or in place of a selection and have the text assume the surrounding formatting, not those already associated with the copied text.

► choose the menu command: Edit > Paste Text Only

► press ⌥ and from the Clipboard tag on the Status Bar choose the menu command: Paste Text Only

► press ⌃ or “right click” your mouse or “secondary click” your trackpad and choose the menu command: Paste Text Only

Paste formatting only, not its text

You can paste the formatting of text you have copied elsewhere in your document. This causes the selection to assume the distant formatting without altering the selected text.

► choose the menu command: Edit > Copy > Copy Character Formatting

► press ⌃ or “right click” your mouse or “secondary click” your trackpad and choose the menu command: Copy Character Formatting

► choose the menu command: Edit > Copy > Paste Character Formatting

► press ⌃ or “right click” your mouse or “secondary click” your trackpad and choose the menu command: Paste Character Formatting

You can apply character formats using the Dropper on the Toolbar as well. See “Change the format of characters using the “Dropper”” on page 111 for an explanation.