Text color - possibly feature request

[Wayne Brissette]

cheshirekat cheshirekat at cheshirekat.com on Tuesday, May 06, 2003 stated:


>Ok. Maybe there was a tad bit of venting here, sorry. I hope someone's
>got some tips I can use so I can keep a little of my sanity. I'd
>especially like a way to get all the text in my document to be one color
>- preferably black, without it being a multi-step process.

The issue is OO retains text as styled text (this is not a bad thing to
do) from the clipboard. However, for your purposes (and mine) it isn't
the best option. A plain text paste from the clipboard would be the
preferred way of doing it. I asked for the option to have a paste as Text
Only from the clipboard, but until one is available, you can use a small
AppleScript I wrote to do this.

Set Clipboard to Plain Text

-- Begin AppleScript
tell application "Finder"
	set MyInternalClip to the clipboard as text
	set MyInternalClip to MyInternalClip as Unicode text
	set the clipboard to MyInternalClip
end tell

-- End AppleScript

That's pretty much all you have to do to it, then all your text will be
black, and in the style you set for that level.

Wayne


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