Copying from MS word into RunRev 4.0

[Bob Sneidar]

I did this on a Mac and it works fine. I believe that MS Office clipboard data is specially formatted, and the app has to be running in order to do an on the fly translation of the data. I have noticed in the past that if I copy something from an office product and then launch another program, then paste, I usually get nothing, because the other app wasn't open at the time I copied, so I suspect the translation only gets done when switching between open applications. 

Bob


On Sep 2, 2011, at 8:21 AM, Jonathan Lynch wrote:

> Hi everyone.
> 
> When I type this word into MS Word: it's
> 
> Then copy and paste it into a field in RunRev, the apostrophe gets omitted.
> This is on a windows system. The character in question is not the usual
> apostrophe, but is the curly apostrophe that MS Word uses.
> 
> This is quite an issue for me. My work around is to hijack the paste
> operation, use VB Script to create an invisible Word doc and save that doc
> as a text file, then use Rev to retrieve the contents of the text file. This
> works, but takes approximately 1.5 seconds to complete the procedure.
> 
> Does anyone know if the recent versions of Live Code allow for pasting from
> an MS Word document without omitting characters? I know it worked fine back
> with RunRev 2.5, so I know it is possible for it to be done.
> Well, thanks for you help.
> 
> Peace,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
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