Comments on: “Special Paste” Sucks

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:32:20 +0000

Thanks for the link Rob.

Since I posted this rant, I noticed that (on Windows) the same annoying “Match destination formatting” popup that I am bitching about has a “Defaults…” choice which allows me to turn it off (at least for MS Office apps).

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:54:53 +0000

For OSX here is a good link to the same discussion on MacOSXHints. The comments people posted contain some good solutions.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051213055833832

By: Alkivar

Alkivar — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:13:57 +0000

You’ve hit upon one of my biggest pet peeves. Most instant messenger clients have this problem.

I also find that when using software like MS Word when you get that little popup on pasting “keep source formatting” “match destination formatting” not only highlights this problem… but makes it worse if you are doing multiple cut and pastes.

I wonder if there is some sort of universal clipboard replacement for Windows that could solve this