Re: Copy & Paste from Web to Word '03

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From: Opinicus (gezgin_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:52:57 +0200

"Mrmars" <Mrmars@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote

>I am having trouble copying text from web pages and pasting
>to a Word
> document. When I find text on a web page that I want to
> copy I highlight it
> all and the right click>copy and then open Word '03 and
> right click>paste and
> Word just hangs up without pasting my text. I end up doing
> the control,alt,
> delete thing to end Word and can't complete my task but,
> when I try and paste
> to say "notepad" there's no problem. Then I can copy from
> the notepad file
> and paste to Word and it works fine so, it appears to be a
> problem copying
> and pasting from the web only. Can anyone provide a remedy
> as this is very
> frustrating and makes my job very cumbersome.

If the web page has a lot of HTML code in it, Word can take
a long time pasting it into a document, especially if the
code is complex and contains Java etc. I have experienced
Word hanging on occasion too. If you're not interested in
preserving the formatting etc, your method of using Notepad
is actually the best (and probably the safest). Another way
is to use the following macro, which I've associated with
control-shift-V:

<quote>
Sub PasteUnformatted()
'
' PasteUnformatted Macro
' Control shift V pastes the clipboard without formatting
Selection.PasteSpecial Link:=False, DataType:=wdPasteText,
Placement:= _wdInLine, DisplayAsIcon:=False
End Sub
</quote>

HTH 

-- 
Bob
Kanyak's Doghouse
http://www.kanyak.com

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