Re: Stripping all formatting from Word doc

Sorry, I should have added that teensy little bit of essential detail ...
{Duh!}

Use Edit>Paste Special... You get a choice of formats, depending on what
you copied to the clipboard and what you are pasting into.

You can choose "Unformatted Text" to force a conversion of whatever is on
the clipboard to plain text.

Since I use this facility a lot, I have made a macro to do it, which I use
the Insert key for. Any time I want to strip the formatting on incoming
text, I just hit Insert instead of Paste.

That won't work for you, because you want to paste into GoLive. You should
find that GoLive has Edit>Paste Special available, most applications do...

Cheers


On 30/8/05 3:55 AM, in article
labolide-322789.10551829082005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Kurt"
<labolide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <BF392247.1EBA1%john@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
> "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> 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...
>
> And how does one "force" it to?
>
>>
>>
>> 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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