Re: copy text using "select text with similar formatting"

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I don't think it is the clipboard. I did a test and copied a numbered list one para at a time so that I had 33 numbered paras on the clipboard. They all displayed in the correct order.

I then selected that style in the Style Pane option and selected them all and they again copied and displayed on the clipboard correctly. I then pasted them in a new document and they were fine. So I am not sure what is happening to make your selections out of sequence. I'll play a little more and see if I can 'break' this.

Terry

"rupert" <rupert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:91DB27C6-454D-496F-89B8-75B8F6C69025@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I googled and found spiking.
http://www.rosevines.org/blog/2008/6/18/tip-using-microsoft-words-spike-to-rearrange-text.html

However, its useful for me to be able to highlght text in the original
document so I can see what I've used. hence using a style (i included colour
shading). That way I have an audit trail.

Spiking is handy but not quite same. It does what I wish my method would
which is maintain the order.

I think there must be a bug in the clipboard (may be when I paste more than
a certain number of characters it overflows - just guessing).

"rupert" wrote:

Hi, what is the Spike command. I checked Word help and found:

Keyboard shortcuts for SmartArt graphics
Help > Accessibility
Keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Office Word
Help > Accessibility

However, searching latter I couldnt see "Spike" anywhere

"rupert" wrote:

> Thanks
>
> "Terry Farrell" wrote:
>
> > I don't know why this should happen without looking at the document > > itself.
> > However, I would not do the task this way. I'd go through, select the
> > passages and instead of formatting them, I'd use the Spike command. > > Then
> > switch to the new document and Unspike to paste everything spiked > > into the
> > new document in the same order in which it was spiked. Note, you can > > either
> > save your original document which will remove all the passages you > > spiked,
> > or you can close it without saving it and the spike passages will > > remain
> > intact.
> >
> > -- > > Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP
> >
> > "rupert" <rupert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:9444BCCF-CE41-447C-8DE3-FEBA875295F2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >I have very long documents to sift through. I have been selecting > > >passages
> > > of text which I need from different parts of the document and > > > giving them
> > > the
> > > same style which I call "useful". I then select all these blocks > > > of text
> > > from throughout the document I am working on using the "select text > > > with
> > > similar formatting" option on right click. I copy and paste the > > > text to a
> > > new document. With about ten blocks of text this works fine. > > > However, I
> > > can
> > > have 50 such blocks. If I copy and paste these in one go using > > > "select
> > > text
> > > with similar formatting", when I paste them, some of the blocks get > > > placed
> > > out of order. I therefore have to work in small blocks which is
> > > frustrating
> > > given I have so much to do.
> > > Is this a bug in Word? Can you help?
> >

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