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Clipboard adding extra returns
Forgive me for cross-posting - this seemed to end up in the wrong forum last
time.... I've never seen this in my life. Help!!! In just a regular Word doc, with normal as the style, I type two lines (just 20 or so characters long - yes I saw the MS article 256 charcters), separated by a simple hard return. Then, I copy the text and paste it elsewhere (also to just a standard normal style (singled spaced, no before or after spacing, either in the current document or a clean new doc). Once pasted, Word throws in an extra hard return wherever it encouters one. So now, there is one line, two hard returns, then the next line as follows: Original text: This is a test[Hrt] This is the second line[Hrt] Copied and pasted text becomes: This is a test[Hrt] [Hrt] This is the second line[Hrt] [Hrt] If I type the text in the same location, there is no problem. I blew out the normal template and forced Word to ceate a new one, but that didn't make any difference. I hope someone has seen and that I don't need to re-install Word! |
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Thanks for your response, Johh. However, I am a Word expert and I do know
how to use show/hide and what a paragraph mark is versus a soft return, hard return, etc. Where I placed [Hrt] below represent a paragraph mark. Trust me, there is something wrong with Word. I can do the same steps on any other computer and not have a problem. I think somehow the clipboard is corrupt. I'm just wondering if there is a registry setting or something I should be checking on. Original text: This is a test[Hrt] This is the second line[Hrt] Copied and pasted text becomes: This is a test[Hrt] [Hrt] This is the second line[Hrt] [Hrt] If I type the text in the same location, there is no problem. Thanks. "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote: This has nothing to do with Word, so you don't need to re-install anything :-) Whatever is happening is happening in the document itself. Now: Word distinguishes between a hard return and a paragraph mark. Which one are you using? Turn on your non-printing characters (Show/Hide on your toolbar) so you can see what it is you are actually copying. Now go to ToolsOptionsEdit... What settings are you using for Smart Copy/Paste? Cheers On 20/1/07 7:21 AM, in article , "zkid" wrote: Forgive me for cross-posting - this seemed to end up in the wrong forum last time.... I've never seen this in my life. Help!!! In just a regular Word doc, with normal as the style, I type two lines (just 20 or so characters long - yes I saw the MS article 256 charcters), separated by a simple hard return. Then, I copy the text and paste it elsewhere (also to just a standard normal style (singled spaced, no before or after spacing, either in the current document or a clean new doc). Once pasted, Word throws in an extra hard return wherever it encouters one. So now, there is one line, two hard returns, then the next line as follows: Original text: This is a test[Hrt] This is the second line[Hrt] Copied and pasted text becomes: This is a test[Hrt] [Hrt] This is the second line[Hrt] [Hrt] If I type the text in the same location, there is no problem. I blew out the normal template and forced Word to ceate a new one, but that didn't make any difference. I hope someone has seen and that I don't need to re-install Word! -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant Technical Writer. Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
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Hi zkid
If you are getting different results in the same document on different computers, each of which has the same version of Windows and Word, then we can safely assume that the issue relates to either the settings on the problem computer. As John suggested, do Tools Options. On the Edit tab, click the "Settings" button. Try your cut and paste with every possible combination of the settings there. Does that make a difference? Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "zkid" wrote in message ... Thanks for your response, Johh. However, I am a Word expert and I do know how to use show/hide and what a paragraph mark is versus a soft return, hard return, etc. Where I placed [Hrt] below represent a paragraph mark. Trust me, there is something wrong with Word. I can do the same steps on any other computer and not have a problem. I think somehow the clipboard is corrupt. I'm just wondering if there is a registry setting or something I should be checking on. Original text: This is a test[Hrt] This is the second line[Hrt] Copied and pasted text becomes: This is a test[Hrt] [Hrt] This is the second line[Hrt] [Hrt] If I type the text in the same location, there is no problem. Thanks. "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote: This has nothing to do with Word, so you don't need to re-install anything :-) Whatever is happening is happening in the document itself. Now: Word distinguishes between a hard return and a paragraph mark. Which one are you using? Turn on your non-printing characters (Show/Hide on your toolbar) so you can see what it is you are actually copying. Now go to ToolsOptionsEdit... What settings are you using for Smart Copy/Paste? Cheers On 20/1/07 7:21 AM, in article , "zkid" wrote: Forgive me for cross-posting - this seemed to end up in the wrong forum last time.... I've never seen this in my life. Help!!! In just a regular Word doc, with normal as the style, I type two lines (just 20 or so characters long - yes I saw the MS article 256 charcters), separated by a simple hard return. Then, I copy the text and paste it elsewhere (also to just a standard normal style (singled spaced, no before or after spacing, either in the current document or a clean new doc). Once pasted, Word throws in an extra hard return wherever it encouters one. So now, there is one line, two hard returns, then the next line as follows: Original text: This is a test[Hrt] This is the second line[Hrt] Copied and pasted text becomes: This is a test[Hrt] [Hrt] This is the second line[Hrt] [Hrt] If I type the text in the same location, there is no problem. I blew out the normal template and forced Word to ceate a new one, but that didn't make any difference. I hope someone has seen and that I don't need to re-install Word! -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant Technical Writer. Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
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I suggest that if you were indeed a Word "expert" you wouldn't be calling it
a hard return when you meant "Paragraph Mark", because you would understand the significant difference. You might also have managed to mention your Word version and revision level, because you would know that that information can be very significant to this question. From your description, Word is operating perfectly as designed. By all means blow away your Word data key in the registry as described in the Microsoft Knowledgebase. But I don't believe anything in there is involved with this mechanism. I am not sure whether you are seeing two sets of paragraph marks being pasted or two sets of paragraph spacing. If it's line spacing, the destination has either style or hard formatting with different line spacing. Depending on your version of Word, that's treated differently on paste. I would check the properties of the Styles in involved. If you are using Word 2002, I would also investigate the possibility that one of those paragraph marks is a style separator character. To my way of thinking, this could be one of five things. In descending order of probability, they a * Style/direct formatting clash * Corrupt document * Style separators * Tracked changes * Unix line-enders Cheers On 21/1/07 6:20 AM, in article , "zkid" wrote: Thanks for your response, Johh. However, I am a Word expert and I do know how to use show/hide and what a paragraph mark is versus a soft return, hard return, etc. Where I placed [Hrt] below represent a paragraph mark. Trust me, there is something wrong with Word. I can do the same steps on any other computer and not have a problem. I think somehow the clipboard is corrupt. I'm just wondering if there is a registry setting or something I should be checking on. Original text: This is a test[Hrt] This is the second line[Hrt] Copied and pasted text becomes: This is a test[Hrt] [Hrt] This is the second line[Hrt] [Hrt] If I type the text in the same location, there is no problem. Thanks. "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote: This has nothing to do with Word, so you don't need to re-install anything :-) Whatever is happening is happening in the document itself. Now: Word distinguishes between a hard return and a paragraph mark. Which one are you using? Turn on your non-printing characters (Show/Hide on your toolbar) so you can see what it is you are actually copying. Now go to ToolsOptionsEdit... What settings are you using for Smart Copy/Paste? Cheers On 20/1/07 7:21 AM, in article , "zkid" wrote: Forgive me for cross-posting - this seemed to end up in the wrong forum last time.... I've never seen this in my life. Help!!! In just a regular Word doc, with normal as the style, I type two lines (just 20 or so characters long - yes I saw the MS article 256 charcters), separated by a simple hard return. Then, I copy the text and paste it elsewhere (also to just a standard normal style (singled spaced, no before or after spacing, either in the current document or a clean new doc). Once pasted, Word throws in an extra hard return wherever it encouters one. So now, there is one line, two hard returns, then the next line as follows: Original text: This is a test[Hrt] This is the second line[Hrt] Copied and pasted text becomes: This is a test[Hrt] [Hrt] This is the second line[Hrt] [Hrt] If I type the text in the same location, there is no problem. I blew out the normal template and forced Word to ceate a new one, but that didn't make any difference. I hope someone has seen and that I don't need to re-install Word! -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant Technical Writer. Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant Technical Writer. Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
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