Re: Copy & Paste from Web to Word '03

From: Mrmars (Mrmars_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:27:10 -0800

The situation is I am a recruiter and part of my job is to research job sites
like Monster, Yahoo Hot Jobs, Career Builder Etc. Once I find a resume that
could be useful I copy and paste it to a Word Doc. which is the format my
superiors require. It seems this problem just began occuring within the last
week. Your explanation regarding a "macro" is beyond my Word experience.

"Opinicus" wrote:

> "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

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