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                <br clear="both" /><div id="minitoc"><div class="t"><div class="b"><div class="l"><div class="r"><div class="bl"><div class="br"><div class="tl"><div class="tr"><div><h3>Contents [<a href="#" onclick="return toggleMiniToc('minitoc-links', this);" class="hideLink">Hide</a>]</h3><ul id="minitoc-links"><li><p><a href="#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6fa3a"><h4 class="topictitle4">Paste text from another application</h4>
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</a></p></li></ul></div></div><br clear="both" /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br clear="both" /><div><p>If the insertion
point is not inside a text frame when you paste text into InDesign,
a new plain text frame will be created. If the insertion point is
inside a text frame, the text will be pasted inside that frame.
If you have text selected when you paste, the pasted text will overwrite
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such as styles and index markers, open the Clipboard Handling section
of the Preferences dialog box, and select All Information under
Paste. To remove these items and other formatting when pasting,
select Text Only.</span></li>
<li><span>Cut or copy text in another application or in an InDesign document.</span></li>
<li><span>If you like, select text or click in a text frame. Otherwise,
the text will be pasted into its own new frame.</span></li>
<li><span>Do one of the following:</span><ul><li><p>Choose
Edit&#160;&gt; Paste. If the pasted text doesn’t include all
the formatting, you may need to change settings in the Import Options
dialog box for RTF documents.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Choose
Edit&#160;&gt; Paste Without Formatting. (Paste Without Formatting
is dimmed if you paste text from another application when Text Only
is selected in Clipboard Handling Preferences.)</p>
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<div class="section"><div class="tip"><img src="images/tip_help.png" />You can also drag text from another application
and drop it into an InDesign document, or you can insert a text
file or word-processing file into an InDesign document directly
from Windows Explorer or Mac&#160;OS Finder. The text will be
added to a new frame. Shift-dragging removes the formatting. The
option you select in the Clipboard Handling section of the Preferences
dialog box determines whether information such as index markers
and swatches is preserved.</div></div>
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added or removed, depending on the context. For example, if you
cut a word and then paste it between two words, a space appears
before and after the word. If you paste that word at the end of
a sentence, before the period, a space is not added.</p>
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<ol><li><span>Choose Edit&#160;&gt; Preferences&#160;&gt;
Type (Windows) or InDesign&#160;&gt; Preferences&#160;&gt;
Type (Mac OS).</span></li>
<li><span>Select
Adjust Spacing Automatically When Cutting And Pasting Words, and then
click&#160;OK.</span></li>
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