Text formatting is lost when copy/pasting a text box to another document.
When Copying a text box from one document to another, the formatting is lost and is highlighted red (indicating missing font?). The font changes to from Arial to Helvetica as substitution.
Both documents are updated to the current file format.
The box copies and pastes as a basic text frame.
I'm able to reformat everything to match the other document, but I don't know why it's losing the formatting.
I'm using Windows 10 Pro version 1909.
Micah Beard
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Rawand Syamand commented
My particular issue is that if I copy, say, a formatted heading that I want to copy and paste into another heading text box, the formatting completely fails when I paste into the new text box.
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Mario Debaene
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To Daniel,
Daniel, I think there's an app that interferes with indesign , \I had the same problem, i'm on windows 11..... I unchecked Steam app in my startup apps and my problem is solved -
Daniel Kither commented
I have this error although it doesn't seem to create a missing font issue.
My particular issue is that if I copy, say, a formatted heading that I want to copy and paste into another heading text box, the formatting completely fails when I paste into the new text box.
Its as if the very action of pasting text forces InDesign to destroy the size, colour, and weight of the font. What it ends up as is actually pretty random.
It's a real pain and hopefully will be fixed by Adobe soon because it slows down my workflow fairly dramatically when I don't have the option of quickly copying and pasting (in place) styled text boxes into particular positions on multiple pages of a document. Instead I have to either make new text boxes and set a style manually for each (no quick keyboard shortcut action going on there) or use the eyedropper tool to copy the matching style of text if I'm lucky enough for it to be within the window view, but in most instances, this isn't the case and I have to zoom out, find the style appled to text so I can copy it and drop it nearby and then use the eyedropper tool.
Lots of mucking around for what should and historically has always been a very simple function which has never given me any trouble before.
PLEASE FIX!
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Micah Beard
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When Copying a text box from one document to another, the formatting is lost and is highlighted red (indicating missing font?). The font changes to from Arial to Helvetica as substitution.
Both documents are updated to the current file format.
The box copies and pastes as a basic text frame.I'm able to reformat everything to match the other document, but I don't know why it's losing the formatting.
I'm using Windows 10 Pro version 1909.