Paste question

[art_ik@adobeforums.com]

When I apple c and apple v a text box or table how do I get it to paste in the exact place I want it to be in my document - it always goes to the centre of my document -
Many thanks

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

The default for Paste is to center in the document.

If you choose Edit > Paste in Place, it will paste in the same x,y position.

How is the application supposed to read your mind about where you wanted it pasted?

[Bob Levine]

And if that's how you want it all the time, do what I did...change the
keyboard shortcuts.

Bob

[AlFerrari]

Use a two step process: Paste, then move. Use the control pallet to move precisely.

[art_ik@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for that Robert & Alferrari - Steve - in some applications you can click the cursor and then your copied object will place itself where you want it to go - or was that humour I couldn't tell?!!!!

[Gerald_Singelmann@adobeforums.com]

then your copied object will place itself where you want it to go




Would you mind telling us again, how exactly the software reads your mind?

[John_Slate@adobeforums.com]

....presumably by you clicking the cursor somewhere in the layout.

I'd like to know what application does that?

[Gerald_Singelmann@adobeforums.com]

So the OP thinks it is easier to do [ click - cmd v ] than to [ cmd v - drag ] ?

I wonder why.

[DavidT]

A method of duplicating in place: select the object, press option-down arrow, then press the up arrow.

For pasting in place (the same place on a different page) I press command-option-v. I can't remember if this is my shortcut or if it is built in. Either way, it's simple to remember and use.

[Lou_Wrench@adobeforums.com]

Command option shift v pastes in same position it was copied from

Lou

[AlFerrari]

So the OP thinks it is easier to do [ click - cmd v ] than to [ cmd v
- drag ] ? I wonder why.





No Gerald,

What the OP wants is [ cmd v - click ] so that the paste takes place where he clicks, and not until he does so.

That would be an improvement. It would be clicking with a "loaded cursor."

Al Ferrari

[Michael_Trout@adobeforums.com]

Art_ik, if you are duplicating items on the same page or spread, then you can use the OPTION key to drag a dupliate and position the obect where you desire (add SHIFT to constrain the movement to 45 degree angles).

• Select the object
• Hold the OPTION Key and note that the cursor changes to a double (black over white) arrow.
• Click and drag the duplicate to the desired location on the page or spread.

HTH

-mt

[chris@adsrus.com]

For pasting in place (the same place on a different page) I press command-option-v.




DavidT - This is not the default. It is one you (and I) have changed.

Chris

[DavidT]

Fair enough, thanks Chris. It's hard to remember which are default and which are not - and it's a pain in the backside when you try to use someone else's ID. If I did that regularly, I suppose I'd make sure they had a copy of my shortcuts.

Is/was there a default for paste-in-place?

[chris@adsrus.com]

Is/was there a default for paste-in-place?




I believe it's listed earlier in this thread.
I think it's: command+option+SHIFT+v

I switched mine to the same one PM used. (command+option+v) (without the shift key involved).

Chris

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

By default, Paste Into is Command-Shift-V; Paste in Place is Command-Shift-Option-V.

Given the relatively frequency with which I use these two commands (and also because of my PageMaker background), I always reverse these two shortcuts.

Dave