Setting the Default Paste Behavior

When you perform certain paste actions with tables or content from outside of Flare, a paste icon appears in the editor. This icon lets you provide further information about how you want to handle the content (e.g., convert tables to paragraphs, paste content as a list). There is always more than one method that you can choose from when you click on the paste icon. And at the bottom of every list of options is one to set the default behavior for similar actions in the future.

How to Set the Default Paste Behavior

  1. Open a content file (e.g., topic, snippet) and perform one of the actions that causes the paste icon to display.
  2. Hover over the icon that appears after the content, click the drop-down arrow, and from the menu select Set Default.
  3. In the XML Editor of the Options dialog, select the paste method that you want to use as the default for that type of action.

  4. Click OK.

  5. Click Save the active file. to save your work.

Example You often paste content from Microsoft Word into your Flare documents. By default, when you paste the content into a content file (e.g., topic, snippet), it comes in as regular paragraphs, although you can select one of the other methods at that moment to change it (e.g., paste as inline text, paste as paragraph block). Suppose that most of the time you want the incoming text to be pasted into a list. In that case, after you paste some content from Word, you can click on the paste icon and choose the option to set the default. When you do this, a dialog opens, and you can select Paste List. Then, whenever you paste content from an outside file in the future, that content will be brought in as a list instead of a paragraph by default.