Paste into text box

[gracehjs]

Thanks. I had tried it and it did not seem to work. Worked fine this time:-).

[Ross Macintosh]

If the text already has formatting (say it is being copied from a Word document) note that when you paste into Xara-WD a little dialogue will ask you if you want to paste as 'Rich Text Format' or as 'Unformatted Text' or 'Enhanced Metafile'.

The 'Rich' one will preserve whatever formatting was in the copied text. That can be useful but you run the risk of having a mash of different formatting on your page that you might have to reformat latter. Typically (unless I have a conscious reason to want the old formatting) I just use the 'unformatted' option. With it the pasted text will have whatever formatting you had set in Xara-WD.

Note that if you have copied unformatted text (as happens if you copy from Notepad or some emails) then when you paste Xara-WD is smart enough to not give you the options.

The metafile option is really only useful with text if you want the vectors. It might be useful someday but is likely to be infrequently used.

Regards, Ross