I did this on a Mac and it works fine. I believe that MS Office clipboard data is specially formatted, and the app has to be running in order to do an on the fly translation of the data. I have noticed in the past that if I copy something from an office product and then launch another program, then paste, I usually get nothing, because the other app wasn't open at the time I copied, so I suspect the translation only gets done when switching between open applications.
Bob On Sep 2, 2011, at 8:21 AM, Jonathan Lynch wrote: > Hi everyone. > > When I type this word into MS Word: it's > > Then copy and paste it into a field in RunRev, the apostrophe gets omitted. > This is on a windows system. The character in question is not the usual > apostrophe, but is the curly apostrophe that MS Word uses. > > This is quite an issue for me. My work around is to hijack the paste > operation, use VB Script to create an invisible Word doc and save that doc > as a text file, then use Rev to retrieve the contents of the text file. This > works, but takes approximately 1.5 seconds to complete the procedure. > > Does anyone know if the recent versions of Live Code allow for pasting from > an MS Word document without omitting characters? I know it worked fine back > with RunRev 2.5, so I know it is possible for it to be done. > Well, thanks for you help. > > Peace, > > Jonathan > > > -- > Do all things with love > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
