Re: pasting from Word into Mail.app is driving me nuts

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Probably best to use Edit>Paste Special>Plain Text...

I don't know if Mail has that command, but Entourage does.

Word 2008 has a nasty issue with kerning. We're waiting on a fix from
Microsoft. Until then, paste as plain text :-)


On 13/3/08 12:27 AM, in article ee937f2.-1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"geekgrrl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <geekgrrl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I am working on a research project when I often have to paste text from Word
2008 into Mail.app (10.5.2).

The problem is that the formating looks awful when I paste into Mail. It is
spaced out (like multiple line breaks, or big paragraph spaces) and the text
is formated just like in Word (looks small, wrong font). I end up having to go
through and fix all of this before sending the email and it is a pain.

When I pasted text from Pages, the this doesn't happen. I paste into Mail and
everything looks perfectly formated.

Is there a way to copy text from Word 2008 without this formating, or to paste
it someplace else as plain text? I tried look for an applescript solution but
couldn't find anything. Maybe I could change the formating in Word to match
the formating in Mail?

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