Re: Stripping all formatting from Word doc

In article <BF3A6E92.1EC3F%john@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
"John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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...
>
It has that feature. Excellent tip! Thanks!





> 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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