How do I disable smart pasting?

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willjoe604 Author

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How do I disable smart pasting?

Hi all,

I'm using Pages.app to write a Japanese Document every week.

Everything works great, and I love the new fullscreen mode.

It keeps me away from checking blogs on my breaks! (And that can lead to a very long break.)

Now to the main topic, how do I disable what is called the "Smart Paste"??

There must be some way to do them in terminal, or something...

Having the feature for an English Document must be great.

However, having the feature in a Japanese Document, which technically does not use spaces in a sentence, isn't smart at all...

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 5, 2011 5:52 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 5, 2011 6:51 AM in response to willjoe604

What is this "Smart Paste" to which you refer? Do you mean the Auto-Correction feature? Or the Paste feature?

If it's Auto-Correction, go to Pages > Preferences and change it to suit.

If it's the Paste feature then you might try the Edit > Paste and Match Style menu command instead.

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willjoe604 Author

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Aug 5, 2011 7:21 AM in response to Dale Gillard

Thank you for the reply.

I was referring to a feature where Pages will automatically add spaces between words.

Ex:

- Type "Hello World" (with or with out quotations).

- Type "Wide Web" somewhere else in the page.

- Command+Cut "Wide Web".

- Command+Paste right after "World".

Pages will automatically add a space between "World" and "Wide"

Result: "Hello World Wide Web"

And so far, I don't know how to turn it off....

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Answer 3

Aug 5, 2011 7:48 AM in response to willjoe604

Unfortunately you can't turn this off. It's been a feature of OS X since day 1. I've just learnt to work with it.

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willjoe604 Author

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Aug 5, 2011 8:19 AM in response to Dale Gillard

If that's the case, that's that :S

I'll send a feedback to apple if they can concern a better localization.

Thank you for all the support!

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Answer 5

Walt K

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Aug 5, 2011 8:53 AM in response to Dale Gillard

Dale Gillard wrote:

Unfortunately you can't turn this off. It's been a feature of OS X since day 1. I've just learnt to work with it.

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KOENIG Yvan

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Aug 6, 2011 5:52 AM in response to Walt K

On Snow Leopard running in French, Pages running in French and Pages running in English behave like the Dale's copy : smart paste.

If my memory is good, some "clipboard enhancers" kill the feature.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 6 août 2011 14:51:20

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