formatted text in clipboardData

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Wed Mar 31 09:29:23 EDT 2010


Lars,

Try this or a slightly different variant:

set the htmlText of fld "txt4" to the htmlText of fld "txt1" & \
   the htmlText of fld "txt2" & the htmlText of fld "txt4"
set the clipboardData["rtf"] to the rtfText of fld "txt4"

You'll need an additional field "txt4".

Best,

Mark



Op 31-03-10 15:04, Lars Brehmer schreef:
> I am trying to use a script to put the text of three text fields into 
> the clipboardData and then manually paste it into a Word document and 
> keep the text formatting.
>
> Field txt1 - font A Bold
> Field txt2 - font B Regular
> Field txt3 - font A Regular
>
> If I copy and paste each of the 3 fields separately, the fonts and 
> formatting are retained.
>
> But with this script;
>
> set the clipboardData["rtf"] to the rtfText of fld "txt1" && the 
> rtfText of fld "txt2" && the rtfText of fld "txt3"
>
> and then paste in the Word document, even when choosing "formatted 
> text" result in all three becoming font A Regular. I have tried the 
> same thing with htmlText and neither one works so far for me.
>
> Is it possible to do what I am trying to do?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Lars




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