Re: Stripping all formatting from Word doc

Word does NOT paste 'plain text' unless you force it to.

Depending on what the receiving application asks for, it pastes RTF, HTML,
XHTML or XML...


On 25/8/05 8:26 AM, in article
labolide-8A61A4.15265524082005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Kurt"
<labolide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <BF30C4FE.4485%salmonegg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> <salmonegg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 8/23/05 9:39 AM, in article
>> labolide-42BF92.09395023082005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Kurt"
>> <labolide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Office 2004. Might be a stupid question, but what's the easy to convert
>>> a document to plain text. I've tried saving as plain text, but I still
>>> get a somewhat formatted document. I want to strip all the MS code from
>>> it.
>>> As it is now, I copy and paste into TextEdit, where this can be easily
>>> done.
>> What does "somewhat formatted" mean?
>>
>> Bill
>
> Not sure how to describe this, but cutting and pasting Word plain text
> into say, my web program, GoLive. produces text that I need to reformat
> to the existing CSS. The same text cut and pasted from TextEdit assumes
> the CSS definitions of where I paste it into.
> Wonder why there should be any difference between plain text in Word and
> the same in TextEdit?

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