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March 01, 2007
Mail | Paste and match style
For Meghan,
Have you ever copied styled text from a web page, and found it was all wrong when you pasted it into an email message?
I used to go through this all the time. Either the text is gigantic, or the line spacing is weird, or it becomes invisible because it's white text on a white page. Or I try to copy text from an email message I recieved, and when I paste it into a new message, it's blue. I don't want blue.
To try to fix it, I'd open Mail's text formatting palettes and start changing the colour and size. Which kind of works. But the line spacing issue ends up being impossible to get rid of and infects the whole email message. It would never end well. But now...
There's a simple solution:
- Copy the styled text from a web page - try the lovely turquoise text above.
- Place the cursor in your message where you want it to appear.
- Select, "Paste and Match Style" from the Mail.app's Edit menu.
The keyboard shortcut for "Paste and Match Style" is ALT+SHIFT+APPLE+v.
You may want to use 2 hands. Actually, if you can pull off this manueuver using only one hand, you should get a prize.
This tip also applies to TextEdit and iChat.
Posted by Brad at March 1, 2007 02:56 PM
