on the new mac os which I have been forced into using due to circumstances beyond my control, I can no longer cut and paste from email in a browser into a text edit doc without first converting from rtf to plain text (characters turn into little squares). Anybody got tips re settings?
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i just did it per app (did Notes and Numbers as well). in the Keyboard preferences.
If there isn't a setting that fixes it, you could always try Cmd-Shift-V, which is "Paste as Plain Text".
(the problem has a name, which is 'mojibake', which is Japanese for "characters turn into little squares")
It's ctrl-shift-v in windows.
If you don't usually need/want styled text, you can tell TextEdit to default to creating plain .txt documents. You can always convert as needed (as you know).
TextEdit → Settings → New Document → Format
Usually want formatted text? Great, please see warning.
1. Copy the email
2. Paste into TextEdit
3. Convert Text Edit doc to Plain Text
4. Copy that, paste where needed.
I actually keep a TextEdit document set to Plain Text open all the time for this purpose.
I've noticed the inability to copy text from an e-mail at all when it's in the Viewer window frame; the e-mail has to be opened in a separate window before it can have text copied from it. Not a problem, just really shouldn't be necessary.
"option-shift-command-v"
*sigh* OK FINE. Do it the hard way.