Copying and Pasting in InDesign CS2

[kimsylvi]

Whenever I copy and paste text--either using the text tool or using the black arrow--the text loses its formatting and I end up with default Times, which oddly my computer does not have. It's really annoying. Someone mentioned that I should download the newest update from Adobe, which I did, but it didn't help at all.

Please, please help. This is so annoying.

 

[jmgalvin]

Preferences/General - Clipboard section. Check "preserve text attributes when pasting"

If you want to change the default font go to Indesign but don't open any document. Show the character window and select the font you want. Quit indesign. When you relaunch, you should have your new default font.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[Eggles]

But why use copy and paste? Much better to use File>Place and if you check the box in the Place menu to 'show options' you will get the full range of import options (including preservation of formatting). In addition, if you have already created paragraph styles, make sure it is selected when you place the doc and it will automatically be formatted in that style.

 

[jairrush]

Hi all,

Before you copy your text, click on fly-out menu on paragraph styles tab and choose break link to style.

 

[Ekwoman]

Are you copying/pasting from within InDesign or from another application into InDesign? If you're just working within InDesign, the font shouldn't change at all.

Have you repaired permissions lately? Once a week, and whenever anything starts acting "wonky.

 

[jairrush]

I'm copying/pasting within indesign and not within different applications.

 

[kimsylvi]

I am copying/pasting from within InDesign, which is why this issue is so odd (and annoying). I've tried all the above suggestions, and none of them work. Any other ideas of what might be the problem?

 

[boraparis]

Hi all!!!
With no object selected change font you'd like. Next time you'll copy/paste your new text is font you'd chosed!
This is main principle of all InDesign objects!!!

 

[Ekwoman]

Copying and pasting from within InDesign should NOT change the font, unless you've copied from one document and pasted in another where you have the same style name, with different attributes. For instance, the doc you copied from had Body Text with Times as the font, and the doc you paste into has Body Text with Trebuchet as the font. Other than a case like that, what you copy should be what is pasted within InDesign.

kimsylvi: when I mentioned repairing permissions, I didn't even ask if you were on a Mac. If you are, did you try doing this? I don't know what the equivalent is on a PC, if there is one.