Option 3, better than either of those: PureText. I wouldn't edit without
it. It's especially good for dealing with all of the obnoxious and obtuse
formatting junk that comes with HTML.

http://stevemiller.net/puretext/


In microsoft.public.office.misc ANONYMOUS wrote:

If you want to copy plain text in any other Windows based programs such
as dreamweaver then you can do it in two ways:

1) All programs [should] have Edit/PasteSpecial/unformatted Text
2) Paste the contents in NOTEPAD first. then copy from NOTEPAD and then
paste to your application. By doin this way all the formatting is lost.

hth


Jay Douglas wrote:

Well, like you said, you can save Word files as text files. You can open
text files with word. When opening a text file from word, copy/paste copies
the actual text as text. When you copy a text from the native word format,
it copies the embedded word markup.

A couple of scenarios, say I create a document with the default template and
copy paste the contents into dreamweaver, it copies all the word mark up
with the text.

If I open a text file with word, and copy paste it into dreamweaver, it just
copies the text.

I was wondering if there was a way to create a word template (.dot) file
that uses text as the default format and then have word open this word
template by using a command switch. A possible pseudo command line would
be:

winword.exe /template:textformat.dot

Now, word would be acting as a text editor per say. I could have all the
Word functionality such as spell check, C# code w/ office objects, etc.

I could use this functionality for a ton of different things, not just
copy/paste for dreamweaver.

Does this make any sense?

Thanks,
Jay

"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
I'm not exactly sure what you are actually trying to accomplish since Word
is for Word Documents and the Notepad is for text files. It's sort of like
saying you want to drive a Corvette but make it behave like a Ugo. ;-)

I'm guessing you want to use Word but have it default to saving files as
text? If that's the case then go to Tools/Options/Save and change the
default Save format to Plain Text.

If you want Word to default to the Plain Text style on the Formatting
toolbar click in the text box portion of the Styles drop down and type
"Plain Text" without the quotes and press Enter. You could create a
template that uses the Plain Text style by default and use it if you want
to create a new plain text document. For that, create your template, make
sure the Plain Text style is present and go to Tools/Options/Edit and set
the Default Paragraph Style to "Plain Text".

Perhaps if you could tell us more about what you want to accomplish
exactly with your files then we may be able to offer other suggestions.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/


"Jay Douglas" wrote in message
...
I would like to open Word in text mode. Basically so it saves files in
.txt
mode and copy-paste copies text instead of Word format. I would like to
create a short cut with command switches or something similar to open
word
in this text format without loosing the default Word format of word. In
short, I'm trying to create a super notepad. I've searched, but am
unable
to find a solution. Any suggestions and/or links are appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Jay




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Gary L. Smith
Columbus, Ohio