Cannot paste text from Safari as PLAIN TEXT

Safari 2.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.4.9.
Text copied from some web pages like
http://www.eloquentsw.com/livedictionary.html
cannot be pasted as plain unformated text. For instance, into Eudora Headings (which should paste it as plain text) or using Shift Command V to paste (which should paste it as plain text).
But if I copy such text, paste in a web form like this and then copy from here, then it pastes as plain text.
No problem using other browsers like Firefox. The issue only arises with Safari.
Any idea? Thanks.

You might be stuck, then, unless someone else knows a keyboard shortcut that does what you want.
My workaround for problems like this has always been to paste into a plain text editor (like BBEdit or TextWrangler), then copy and re-paste into the target document. Yes, it's a workaround, but it does work.

Similar Messages

  • Please Help: Automator to get text from Safari Reader into Text file

    Hello All,
    I was hoping that someone will be able to help me.
    I would like for automator to obtain article text from a website without me having to manually cut and paste it.
    I tried to put together a workflow to get text from webpage, but it unfortunatley get some information that I don't want for eg. Menu Bar Titles and additional links etc. What would be ideal is if I could only extract the data that shows when I use the Safari Reader function.  I have tried a jave Readability Script, but this also extract the same information. Is there anyway someone could please kindly help me out with a nice Applescript or something?
    If there is no way to do this, there could be another solution around this... if there was a way I could use automator to delete the first and last 10 lines of the text document.
    Again, any help will be much appreciated.
    Many thanks,
    VicandMeliJvR

    Hi David,
    Thank you for your feedback. I would be happy to use a screen capture program, but Quicktime X seems to only allow me to record audio and record the video separately. I will do this as a last resort, but it's a big pain to try to line up the video audio.
    Thank you! I will definitely do this if nothing else works.

  • Cp5 - Pasting text from Notepad into a text box

    I posted this message in the "Getting Started Forum" but there isn't a whole lot of activity in that forum.
    Hopefully someone can help me because I have a lot of text to paste into a lesson.
    This  seems like such an elementary requirement and I am almost certain that I  have done this before but...for some reason, copying text from Windows  Notepad into a Captivate 5 text box just isn't working today.
    Basically, the paste option is simply not available!
    Yes, I can copy paste into other applications; Captivate is the only application that is blocking this Windows function.
    If  I insert a Text Entry Box, I am able to paste single lines of text  (from Notepad) but obviously this isn't going to work as a text box.
    Is this by design or has something gone haywire?
    Question, how do I get pre-written text (i.e. from Notepad) into Captivate?
    Thanks

    Shawn,
    I have had that happen to me too.  I am always copying and pasting into my Captivate projects.  But sometimes the paste option is just not available.  What I have done, is to save everything and close the application and start it again.  Seems there's a lot of little irritating things like that with Captivate, that's corrected with a restart.  Hope this helps!
    Linda
    >>>
    From: shawninvancouver <[email protected]>
    To:Linda Highlander <[email protected]>
    Date: 8/3/2011 10:44 AM
    Subject: Cp5 - Pasting text from Notepad into a text box
    I posted this message in the "Getting Started Forum" but there isn't a whole lot of activity in that forum.
    Hopefully someone can help me because I have a lot of text to paste into a lesson.
    This  seems like such an elementary requirement and I am almost certain that I  have done this before but...for some reason, copying text from Windows  Notepad into a Captivate 5 text box just isn't working today.
    Basically, the paste option is simply not available!
    Yes, I can copy paste into other applications; Captivate is the only application that is blocking this Windows function.
    If  I insert a Text Entry Box, I am able to paste single lines of text  (from Notepad) but obviously this isn't going to work as a text box.
    Is this by design or has something gone haywire?
    Question, how do I get pre-written text (i.e. from Notepad) into Captivate?
    Thanks

  • Firefox 15.0.1 cannot import bookmarks from Safari 6.0.1

    Hello,
    Firefox 15.0.1 cannot import bookmarks from Safari 6.0.1.
    I have followed the steps below:
    1) Export all Safari bookmarks to an HTML file (File --> Export Bookmarks)
    2) Import bookmarks into Firefox (Bookmarks --> Show all bookmarks --> Import and Backup --> Import Bookmarks from HTML)
    Firefox seems to load the HTML file, but the bookmarks never show up in Firefox.
    Any thoughts about why this is happening?
    Best,
    Jaime.-

    '''Could the GEEKS at Firefox made such a simple request MORE COMPLICATED? I am using FF 18 and it is more complicated than
    any other browser...is this GEEK"S revenge again?'''

  • I can't copy text from safari

    I can't copy text from text page from safari.
    Copy seems copy, but paste, will paste the old text in tre buffer.
    Same problem in iphone4s and ipad2
    iOS 5.1

    Hi Carolyn,
    Thanks for your advice... My overall iPad performance is much mor "snappy" but here is what I get with a paste to this message:iPad 2 User Guide (For iOS 4.3 Software)
    Touch and hold the link. You can open the link in Safari or copy the link address to the clipboard .
    http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/ipad_2_user_guide.pdf
    And this was not what I was most recently copied to my clipboard while using Safari! Befor trying this copy/paste I even cleared Safari cookies and cache! Any other ideas would be appreciated.

  • Drag n Drop selected Text from Safari, chrome not working on indesign CC

    In CS6 If we drag drop any selected text from any app on layout it work but in indesign cc it is working only with some app like TextEdit, notes etc. I knew that very few people have such use case but same is also not working from one of my cocoa app.
    while  debugging if i drop content from TextEdit and Notes app on some sample app I found that TextEdit & Notes App registered for this Extra Pasteboard type "com.adobe.indesign-import-ustl" and "com.adobe.indesign-import-styl" where as chrome and safari are not. similarly my app is registered only for "NSPasteboardTypeString" type. Is this is the limitation or bug of indesign?

    Similar bug(#3710667) was exist in CC before 9.2.2 update as you can see in release notes of 9.2.2(CC last update) here. before fix simple selected text drag & drop did not work from any application except TextEdit .I have also spent hours before this update to find out bug I used ClipBoardViewer sample App to find out current Drop flavour and its content it may help you and before fix I find some workAround first is add flavour in your drop which Indesign understand even if you are not adding any data for that flavour so that you start receiving couldAcceptType() and under this call parse your actual data from PasteBoard and remove all data from pasteBoard so that another next helper will not consume it. as you mention even after adding text flavour your couldAcceptType() not hit so may be this WorkAround not work for you but it worked for me.
    second is just a finding  i.e before doing drag and drop on indesign create one new document (from Indesign UI not programmatically ) save it on disk close it and reopen it after it every drag & drop will start working work .

  • Can't Paste Info From Safari 4 to Mail

    I can select text in Safari 4 (the info shows up on the Clipboard) but I cannot paste directly into Mail with out first pasting it into a text editor. Nor can I drag and drop the text into Mail.
    Any thoughts?

    Mitch Wayne wrote:
    I can select text in Safari 4 (the info shows up on the Clipboard) but I cannot paste directly into Mail with out first pasting it into a text editor. Nor can I drag and drop the text into Mail.
    Any thoughts?
    one of the many bugs in Safari 4. it's beta software after all. nothing to be done about it but wait for it to be fixed by Apple.

  • How to copy text from Excel to a text field in the form?

    Hi All,
    I want to copy a text from Excel or Word file and paste it in a text field in the form, How?
    I tried to use ctrl+c for copy and ctrl+v for paste but it doesn't work!

    hi, i've seen this problem before but can't remember what the solution was...
    but just by searching on this forum resulted in this link
    Re: Copy and Paste
    hope it helps

  • URGENT: Copying text from word doc to text module in smartforms

    Hi ALl
    I have a problem, when i copy texts from word documents to smartforms, some words getting clubbed together. there is no space. I tried justified and left aligned. In both i am getting problem like this. Is there any special way to copy and paste the text to text module from word.
    Thanks
    Murali

    Try to copy to notepad first, then copy to the text module.

  • Get any Spoken Text from the OS as text out of applescript

    Hi I would like to get any words that are spoken from the os as text using applescript. Is it possible to grab it somehow?
    In my case i want to get the moves as they are spoken by the computer in the Apple Chess application.
    Any ideas? I am looking now at the speech scripts, but no luck yet.
    Best,
    Tim

    You could save the game:
    and read the xml-output...
    looks like this:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
    <plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
    <key>Black</key>
    <string>Computer</string>
    <key>BlackType</key>
    <string>program</string>
    <key>City</key>
    <string>Berlin</string>
    <key>Country</key>
    <string>Germany</string>
    <key>Event</key>
    <string>Casual Game</string>
    <key>Holding</key>
    <string>[QBBNNRRPPPPPPP] [QBBNNRRPPPPPPPP]</string>
    <key>Moves</key>
    <string>a2a3
    b7b5
    c2c3
    h7h6
    b2b3
    g8f6
    g1f3
    e7e5
    f3e5
    f8a3
    a1a3
    b8c6
    e5c6
    d7c6
    a3a7
    a8a7
    d2d4
    d8d4
    d1d4
    f6e4
    d4e4
    e8d8
    c1h6
    h8h6
    e4c6
    h6h2
    h1h2
    a7a4
    b3a4
    b5a4
    c6c7
    d8c7
    g2g4
    c8g4
    b1d2
    g4e2
    f1e2
    g7g5
    f2f4
    g5f4
    d2e4
    a4a3
    e2d3
    a3a2
    h2a2
    f4f3
    e4f6
    f3f2
    a2f2
    c7b6
    d3a6
    b6a6
    f2b2
    a6a5
    b2b4
    a5a6
    b4b5
    a6b5
    c3c4
    b5c4
    f6d5
    c4d5
    </string>
    <key>Position</key>
    <string>8/5p2/8/3k4/8/8/8/4K3 w - - 0 32</string>
    <key>Result</key>
    <string>1-0</string>
    <key>StartDate</key>
    <string>2009.10.10</string>
    <key>StartTime</key>
    <string>16:47:19</string>
    <key>Variant</key>
    <string>losers</string>
    <key>White</key>
    <string>Computer</string>
    <key>WhiteType</key>
    <string>program</string>
    </dict>
    </plist>

  • Cannot import bookmarks from Safari on a Mac because "import" under the file menu is grayed out.

    To import bookmarks from Safari on a Mac following the instructions for the import wizard, I am to select "import" under the Firefox file menu, but "import" is grayed out, so I cannot select it.

    * Make sure that you not run Firefox in [[Private Browsing]] mode. In Private Browsing mode some menu items are disabled (grayed) and features like visited links and disabled and not available.
    * You are in Private Browsing mode if you see "Tools > Stop Private Browsing", possibly grayed.
    See [[Private Browsing]] and http://kb.mozillazine.org/Issues_related_to_Private_Browsing
    * You enter Private Browsing mode if you select: Tools > Options > Privacy > History: Firefox will: "Never Remember History"
    * To see all History settings, choose: Tools > Options > Privacy, choose the setting '''Firefox will: Use custom settings for history'''
    * Uncheck: [[ ] "Automatically start Firefox in a private browsing session"
    See also [[Private Browsing|#Always_start_Firefox_in_a_private_browsing_session|Always start Firefox in a private browsing session]]

  • Tags in Enhanced Rich text or Rich text is disappearing in Plain Text

    Hi I have facing an issue with Rich text field in share point.
    I have Two columns (Enhanced Rich Text and Rich text in my list).
    I have entered a text like ( if date > days or size < 20 contact user ).
    If I change the enhanced rich text to plain text The result is like( ​if date  days or size  20 contact user)
    Is it bug in product or default behavior :o ?
    Regards
    Koti

    Hi Koti,
    When you change the enhanced rich text to plain text, it seems to remove “<” and “>” instead of “<div>”.
    Thus, I would suggest you submit a feedback to the Office Developer Platform if there any expectation about more official documentation of SharePoint:
    http://officespdev.uservoice.com/
    It is a place for customers provide feedback about Microsoft Office products. What’s more, if a feedback is high voted there by other customers, it will be promising that Microsoft Product Team will take it into consideration when designing the next version
    in the future.
    Best Regards,
    Dean Wang
    TechNet Community Support
    Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help. If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact
    [email protected]

  • Problems sending text from JavaScript to dynamic text box

    For reasons which I won't bore you with, I'm trying to send
    text from a JavaScript to a dynamic text box in Flash. I've just
    spent all day wondering why I can't get it to work, despite
    following web guides to the letter. Finally I discovered that I'm
    not actually doing anything wrong and everything works perfectly -
    as long as it's online. It won't work at all locally or from the
    network.
    The problem is that this is for learning material which will
    be deployed both online and on CD, so it won't always be running
    from a webserver. Has anybody got any ideas a) why this is
    happening, and b) what I can do about it?
    Cheers
    Marc

    http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial/1_3-fcs/doc/JSPBeans.html
    This is a good tutorial on using JSP pages with JavaBeans.
    Your JSP page can have all the standard HTML tags and a bean can be set to retrieve any values from form fields upon a submit.
    At that point your bean properties are set and your Java application can use that data for whatever processes you wish.
    It's really quite simple once you get the hang of it! ^_^
    Message was edited by:
    maple_shaft

  • Cannot import bookmarks from Safari because "import" option is NOT highlighted (not available). Why?

    MacBook Pro - FireFox 4
    I was able in the past (earlier FireFox versions) to import bookmarks from Safari when clicking on the "Organize Bookmarks." This now is not available. Instead, under "file" there is an "import" option but it is NOT highlighted, i.e., it is not available for clicking. How do you import bookmarks from Safari (or any other browser) after you have used FireFox for a while. i.e., not when you first set it up, but later?

    "Organize Bookmarks" has been renamed to "Show All Bookmarks" in the bookmarks menu.
    The option to import can be disabled if you are in private browsing mode. To stop Firefox opening in private browsing mode do this:
    # Open the Preferences window and go to the Privacy panel
    # Change the setting "Firefox will" to "Remember history", alternatively if you set it to "Use custom settings for history", de-select the setting "Permanent Private Browsing mode"

  • I cannot remove Avast from Safari.  It is blocking a website that I need for remote access to my office.  I have dragged Avast to the trash and have restarted my computer.  It is no longer installed as an app on my Mac.  Does anyone know what to do?

    How do I remove Avast from Safari?

    "Avast" is perhaps the worst of the whole wretched lot of commercial "security" products for the Mac. Not only does it fail to protect you from any real danger, it throws false warnings, destabilizes and slows down the computer, and sometimes or always corrupts the network settings and the permissions of files in your home folder. Removing it may not repair all the damage.
    Back up all data, then remove "Avast" according to the developer's instructions. Restart.
    If you tried to remove Avast by dragging an application to the Trash, you'll have to reinstall it and then follow the instructions linked above.

Maybe you are looking for