clipboard in document view

answered 2013-02-04 05:49:23 +0200

CyanCG
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The last part of your question gave me an idea:

[This] “clipboard” is in the same view as my main text and does not disappear when activating an other screen.

While this might not be exactly what you want, I thought of something:

• Create a new text document and resize its window to place it side-by-side with your current working document (so that the windows do not overlap);
• Change the new document’s view to “web layout” so that the document is not paged (you can then make the window as narrow or as wide as you want, so that you have enough space for your main document);
• Write your snippets, sentences and often-used terms in the new document;
• Define a keyboard shortcut (probably a system-wide shortcut) to rapidly switch between multiple windows of a currently opened application. You can now quickly switch between your working document and your “clipboard” document.

Here is something else I found out: if you display the navigator in your main document’s window (for me, docking it to either side works best) and then set the navigator to “Active Window” in the field at the bottom, the navigator will always display headings, bookmarks and objects of the currently active document. This means you can organize your snippets by writing headings in your clipboard document, applying heading styles to them and then see those headings in the navigator window when you switch to that document. You could, for example, have a “Snippets” section and a “pasted from websites” section and quickly access them through the navigator. By the way: if you want to copy and paste content from a web page or other document without carrying over the formatting, you can use the Edit > Paste Special function.

I hope this helps. I think I am going to start applying my own advice now.

answered 2013-02-03 18:59:29 +0200

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updated 2013-02-03 18:59:29 +0200

Gonzologist
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I too would like to see this feature, it is the only reason I keep MS Word on my system as it really speeds up my work on some document types.