

However, note that I said “some” applications. Change this from Text Only to All Information.

Open the Preferences dialog box (Command/Ctrl+K) and look for the When Pasting Text option in the Clipboard Handling area. That’s a great feature when you need to strip away unwanted styles.įortunately, there’s also a way to maintain formatting when you paste it from some other applications. By contrast, if you copy and paste from one InDesign document into another, it maintains the formatting… unless you use Edit > Paste without Formatting.

Any way around this?īy default, InDesign strips out all the formatting from incoming text when you copy and paste it from any other application. I’ve just been hired to turn my online newspaper into print so I’m learning InDesign, but when I cut and paste anything into InDesign from NVU or Outlook Express, I lose all formatting and end up having to reformat everything.
