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Hi,
when copy a word from microsoft word paste to cricheditctrl in MFC using ctrl+v, the default line spacing in cricheditctrl is changing. How to avoid that or how to paste text with default line spacing?
Thanks
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Do you want to paste plain text rather than any rich text formatting?
What if the copied text was bold, italic, coloured, would you want those aspects copying?
yes, I want to copy as plain text without formatting
In that case I'd suggest seeing if you can handle the paste event and perhaps have the control use PasteSepcial with CF_TEXT.
This isn't something I've ever needed to do myself, so treat this suggestion with a pinch of salt!
PasteSpecial (CF_TEXT) does not paste the text with default format of cricheditctrl. Still the text pasted with font(bold,color,font) styles and line spacing of the copied text.
Are you sure that you are not also pasting the Word paragraph mark (controls line spacing) into the rich edit control? If you do that then the line spacing in the control will change. In Word turn on the visibility of the paragraph marks. Make sure you don't include them in the selection copied to the clipboard.
even if I select line spacing from microsoft word, while pasting in richeditctrl, can we avoid pasting line spacing or set default line spacing?
I think that PasteSpecial(CF_TEXT) uses the target formatting and does not paste any source formatting. Maybe your textbox already contains line-spacing information from other operations at caret.
I decided to do a simple experiment. I copied some rich edit text with font and color formatting to the clipboard from Wordpad. Then I pasted the text into a rich edit control using both Paste() and PasteSpecial(CF_TEXT). The results speak for themselves.
Source text from Wordpad
Rich edit control before any pasting from the clipboard
Rich edit control after pasting using both methods
So (done correctly) PasteSpecial with CF_TEXT does what's needed?
Sure, it pastes the text from the clipboard without any rtf formatting from the source into the control. How it appears in the rich edit control depends on the formatting specified in the control which is the point that Viorel-1 made earlier.
I am checking clipboard data to skip pasting if it contains certain characters. For that I am calling OpenClipboard and ClosecClipboard functions. If I call PasteSpecial(CF_TEXT) after CloseClipBoard function it is not copying linespacing of formatted text, If I call before CloseClipBoard linespacing is getting pasted.
I am checking clipboard data to skip pasting if it contains certain characters […]
If you extract and check the clipboard text before pasting, then you can replace the paste operation with myControl.ReplaceSel(…), where you can specify the original or adjusted text.