Re: Trouble every time I paste text from the Internet into Word?
- From: "darklink" <darklink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 13:00:02 -0700
Yea Opinicus is right about that. Often when you paste right from the web,
you can see that word is actually copying from the IP of watever site your
on. You could also use view->source and then just copy the text from that
view. But thats a little more diffcuilt if you have no idea how HTML is
written.
"Opinicus" wrote:
> "Michael O." <MichaelO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>
> >I am having a reoccurring problem on my computer that I am
> >using and have not
> > been able to find a remedy. Every time that I copy/paste
> > text from the
> > Internet into my open Microsoft Word document, the
> > computer locks up and I
> > have to Ctrl+Alt+Delete to get out of Word and I lose
> > whatever progress I
>
> Whenever you copy (control-c) from an internet page, you're
> most likely also copying several tons of HTML formatting,
> pictures, scripts, and dog knows what else as well. When you
> try and paste (control-v) these into Word, Word does its
> mighty best to comply but more often than not it gets
> wrapped up in its underwear in the attempt.
>
> Two remedies that I've found will work:
>
> * If all you're interested in is the text, define it and
> paste it into a non-HTML program like Notepad. Copy the
> Notepad text into Word.
>
> * Save the page from IE (File > Save as) and in the "Save as
> type" drop-down, pick whatever option works for you.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Bob
>
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