What is the source material? and which software are you copying from?

If I copy and paste text from Word or any browser, I get all four options in Paste Special.

If I copy and paste unformatted text e.g. HTML or CSS code, from a plain text editor such as Notepad, Notepad++ or even DW's Code View then I only get the first two. The bottom two are greyed out.

There are 2 things that can be happening here:

1. The character encoding of your HTML page is not supporting the chosen/ copied text

or else

2. There is some caching issues with your operating system's clipboard

Rebooting doesn't solve issues in Dreamweaver. It solves issues in your OS that in turn affects DW to work properly.

Go to 'Preferences' and choose 'Copy/ Paste'

Give us a screenshot of what you see there.

Since you're copying from Dreamweaver already, have you tried copying from 'Code View' of source file and pasting it back into 'Code View' of target file?

DW uses pre-defined algorithms for 'Paste Special' and this depends on the entirety of content you're trying to Copy/ Paste and is purely a case-to-case function.

In your case, I see 1 feasible option that may do just what you want it to:

Open Preferences > Copy/ Paste > Select the 4th radio button (Full Formatting)

Once you do this, try copying/ pasting again. Let us know if this works. Ideally, it should as DW will also help you do a Paste Special with full formatting - it should try to retain as much styles as possible.

Also, if possible, run your source file through the W3 validator here: http://validator.w3.org which should ideally validate all HTML + CSS content on your page. Let u know the results that come up after you validate your page.

Quick Tip: Try doing a similar copy/ paste special on a different file. Let us know if the same issue persists.

PrepsTexas1 wrote:

 

I have already done this multiple times and on various pages before coming onto this forum. Same issue no matter what I do.

Done what? Changed preferences? Or Ran a W3 validation?

Post your code here - both source and target (if target has anything in it already) or if its a blank file, just the source.

Got it. Assuming this is the source you're trying to copy from, the line numbers your screenshot has doesn't match with the code you sent me.

It seems like you've commented lots of code in what you've sent me. With the code you sent, let me know the line numbers you're trying to copy and any relevant images associated with them to enable me to come up with a solution to your issue.

PS: This issue is completely resolvable. I've experienced similar issues earlier and I've been able to find a way around it.

See this screen capture video of my trial. It worked just fine.

Also, like mentioned, 'Paste Special' is primarily an option if you're importing content from other rich text editors such as Word. For cross-copying between 2 DW files, I wouldn't use that if I were you. I'd simply just copy the code alone from 'Code View' and paste it in the new document. I'm sure it will work just the way its supposed to. I also remember you mentioning it worked just fine for you this way!

Try enabling 'Clean up word paragraph spacing' in your paste preferences. Then try doing Paste special Let us know what comes up