Paste text - always unformatted possible?

[Wolfgang]

Hi,

I am in the process of translating a couple of catalogues made in Xara into three more languages.

I received the translated texts a Word-file. There are a lot of tables and diagrams to translate, so I have to do a VERY large number of copy/paste from translation to document.

On every paste, Xara gives me three options:

Unformatted text
Rich Text Format
HTML format

For this project, I almost always need "Unformatted text", so that the original format in my document stays intact.

But it is incredible cumbersome to chose this option hundreds of times, with every single paste.

Is there a way to temporarily ALWAYS use "Unformatted text" without asking?
But it can't be permanent, for the next project I might need one of the other options as well.

I am running Designer Pro X17

Any ideas?
Cheers

[Acorn]

@Wolfgang, the simplest would be to copy the entire MS Word document into a text editor and to then copy and paste text from that into your Xara design.

You could also look into Ditto Portable - https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io; it is a Clipboard Manager.

Acorn

[Wolfgang]

@Wolfgang, the simplest would be to copy the entire MS Word document into a text editor and to then copy and paste text from that into your Xara design.
Acorn

Sadly not possible or at least not practical.
Two of the languages are Czech and Slovak which I can't read or understand.
I need to have the original layout, so I know what goes where.

[Acorn]

@Wolfgang, export the MS Word document to PDF. Copy & Paste from PDF into your XDA is plain text and can easily be made form the shown layout.
You will have to then manage replacing line breaks with a space but quite mechanical if you work from the bottom up.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

I agree with Wolfgang. There are always work-arounds but setting a default could be very useful, especially when working on a long document or book.

[gwpriester]

I've moved this to Dear Xara.