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Copying formatted text without page layout
Spend time learning styles. It will cure most problems you have with
formatting anomolies. http://addbalance.com/styles.htm -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Francis Turton" wrote in message oups.com... Anne Troy wrote: Francis: If Word is useless, why do 90% of word processor users use it? (Food for thought.) Because (a) FrameMaker is too expensive and (b) Word comes as standard on most business PCs! I'm a technical writer and following my company's recent takeover, have been obliged to start using Word again after 4 trouble-free years of using FrameMaker. I didn't mean to offend anyone, but I'm just fed up of Word's total unpredictability - i.e. the way that something that worked yesterday, doesn't work today - and the inordinate number of bugs it contains (I've given up on multi-level numbered lists, just to take one example). I work with long, complex documents and Word just isn't up to the task of producing them. I waste *days at a time* trying to get it to do what I want. I've also made the mistake of writing Visual Basic macros for automatic conversion of one format to another. You wouldn't believe the number of workarounds I've had to write in order to get it to do approximately what I want, because of the minefield of bugs (which Microsoft, needless to say, calls "features")! Sorry to be negative but I am just extremely frustrated. Try this: http://www.officearticles.com/word/p...oft_word.ht m ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com Thanks - problem is I want to *retain* the paragraph and character formatting of the source document, but not the page layouts. The stupid thing is that in *one* document I have, the page layouts get copied over, and in another document, they don't! That's what I mean about Word's infuriating unpredictability. Anyway, thanks for the response! Francis |
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