Request: Can copy into clipboard as formatted text?

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wongss
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I teach embedded programming and I often show sample C codes in PowerPoint slides. Colored codes is very essential for readability. (I used to manually color them !!!)

My current method is to paste my codes into Visual Studio editor (overkill).
1. Copy the colored text into the clipboard.
2. In PowerPoint, use Edit > Paste Special > Formatted Text
(If step 2 does not give good result, I paste it into Word first then repeat the steps from Word)

It would be great if the pnotepad can also copy text as formatted text. Not sure if that would be too much work.

Thanks,
WongSS

Posted 3 years ago #
simon
PN Developer

Edit|Copy As RTF

Enjoy!

Posted 3 years ago #
wongss
Member

Really glad that such need is already catered for. Did not realize that it is already RIGHT THERE!

Strangely, after Edit | Copy As RTF, in PowerPoint, the Paste Special is not available. Not even Paste option! (Not sure what could be the reason. Only "Office Clipboard..." option is available.) Anyway, the copied text is now easily copied to Word. From there I did another copy. This time, the Paste Special do appear in PowerPoint and I have success! That is really great!

By the way, since now I can use PNP (rather than VS), I can now add in extra keywords for the 8051 MCU like bit, sbit, sfr etc.

Thanks so much.

Posted 3 years ago #

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