Re: Stripping all formatting from Word doc

"John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Word does NOT paste 'plain text' unless you force it to.


Word does NOT paste, period ;-)

Word might not even be running any more at the time you paste.

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

.... or plain text (Unicode/ANSII), or enhanced metafile (EMF), or a bitmap
graphic, ..., depending on what formats Word has put on the clipboard, and
what format the application you paste into decides on.

In Windows, you can start clipbrd.exe to see what formats an application has
made available on the clipboard.
It's probably similar (at least in principle) on the Mac.

Greetings,
Klaus



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