Question

The Html editor is great, but often I want to copy and paste something into a case from a formatted document. When in the Html editor, the paste carries the formatting from the source document. It would be a nice feature to have a "Paste as plain text" button on the Html editor toolbar that would strip out formatting and paste only as plain text.

Today, I find I use the following work arounds:

1. Change to plain text editor mode just for the paste operation
2. Paste into notepad, than copy again and paste into Html editor.

Answer 1

A lot of this is going to depend on your browser a lot more than on FogBugz. If you're using Chrome, Dane's suggestion to use Ctrl+Shift+V to paste text without formatting is great.

I use Chrome as well, and one of the things I do a lot is drag and drop links from one browser window to another. It will preserve the link without the formatting, which is always exactly what I want.

Answer 2

I am using Kompozer and it has a right-click option to "Paste without formatting". Sometimes the option is greyed out but I think that if you are in "Preview" mode then you will have the option. AayBee.