Copy and Paste only text without formatting from Safari to Pages

Ok. I see how that works. My problem is also consistency. It seems there is an inherent difference between mouse right click > copy/paste versus shortcut key CMD+C or CMD+V.

When testing the many options, I found that CMD+V almost always yielded undesired results of font/format changes. I also noted the style would change to 'Default*' that would render size and format from the web page.

1) Why does this make a difference?

2) Is there a setting that can make 'Default*' style the 'body' or some other trick that does not change the font/format?

I think this drove me nuts on my MBP and figured out a way to force the same as MS 'plain text' only when pasting between docs and from other sources.

Bottom line, I don't have to do this on my MBP, so there has to be some sort of reason or functionality between the two OS's?

Barry,

Thanks for the insight. I am known to way overthink things so my question to you is can we change "Keystroke combinations listed in the Edit menu" to behave a certain way? In other words make CMD+C or V, behave the same as mouse copy/paste?

Also trying to understand why I have to do this on the MB Air, not the MBP.

Ric

medwds,

I was thinking the same thing, but the consistency is wonky (sorry for being vague). I deal with this daily at work where some folks have a certain 'default' formatting with MS Word. When docs are shared and copy/paste between (track changes is not feasible for some of these) docs gets annoying. I figured out the selection of the pasted content makes a big difference. Meaning if you select a section where bulleted formatting exists after a carriage return, or prior to the section format drives the format 'merge' vs. plain text.

Or did I misunderstand your analysis? I believe there is something going on in the inherent differences between the OS's (Maverick's v. High Sierra) and maybe combination of the Pages versions.

R.