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How Can I Leave Pasted Text Selected?
Whenever I paste copied text into a Word document, the insertion point moves
to the end of the pasted text. How can I get Word to paste the text and leave it selected? Typically after pasting, I select the pasted text and do a Search and Replace to remove unnecessary paragraphs/line breaks from the pasted text. Thanks, Chris |
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How Can I Leave Pasted Text Selected?
I've tried everything...Paste Special doesn't remove the line breaks and I
have a macro to remove those, but I wanted to preceed that macro with one that would select the pasted text. Since the pasted text is always a different size, I can't standardize the macro and prompting to count lines isn't reasonable, so if there was a way to force Word to keep the pasted text selected, that's the golden ticket. Sounds like the only way out is to have a macro create a new document, paste the text, select all, run the line-break-removal macro, select all, copy, close the new doc without saving and then paste the results into the destination. Thanks for trying though. "CyberTaz" wrote: Don't know of any way to do so - "selection" isn't a concept with which the clipboard is familiar... all it knows is "content":-) Have you tried using Edit Paste Special - Unformatted Text (or Unformatted Unicode Text) rather than just slapping the stuff in? If this is content being copied from the web you may find the following to be useful: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "cblocher" wrote in message ... Whenever I paste copied text into a Word document, the insertion point moves to the end of the pasted text. How can I get Word to paste the text and leave it selected? Typically after pasting, I select the pasted text and do a Search and Replace to remove unnecessary paragraphs/line breaks from the pasted text. Thanks, Chris |
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How Can I Leave Pasted Text Selected?
If you use a macro to paste the text anyway, you could try to use something
like the following to paste the text. Before pasting, the code stores the position of the selection start. After pasting, the start of the selection is set to the stored position, i.e. the selection is extended to include all you have pasted. Dim nPos As Long With Selection nPos = .Start .Paste .Start = nPos End With -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "cblocher" wrote: I've tried everything...Paste Special doesn't remove the line breaks and I have a macro to remove those, but I wanted to preceed that macro with one that would select the pasted text. Since the pasted text is always a different size, I can't standardize the macro and prompting to count lines isn't reasonable, so if there was a way to force Word to keep the pasted text selected, that's the golden ticket. Sounds like the only way out is to have a macro create a new document, paste the text, select all, run the line-break-removal macro, select all, copy, close the new doc without saving and then paste the results into the destination. Thanks for trying though. "CyberTaz" wrote: Don't know of any way to do so - "selection" isn't a concept with which the clipboard is familiar... all it knows is "content":-) Have you tried using Edit Paste Special - Unformatted Text (or Unformatted Unicode Text) rather than just slapping the stuff in? If this is content being copied from the web you may find the following to be useful: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "cblocher" wrote in message ... Whenever I paste copied text into a Word document, the insertion point moves to the end of the pasted text. How can I get Word to paste the text and leave it selected? Typically after pasting, I select the pasted text and do a Search and Replace to remove unnecessary paragraphs/line breaks from the pasted text. Thanks, Chris |
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How Can I Leave Pasted Text Selected?
Don't know of any way to do so - "selection" isn't a concept with which the
clipboard is familiar... all it knows is "content":-) Have you tried using Edit Paste Special - Unformatted Text (or Unformatted Unicode Text) rather than just slapping the stuff in? If this is content being copied from the web you may find the following to be useful: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "cblocher" wrote in message ... Whenever I paste copied text into a Word document, the insertion point moves to the end of the pasted text. How can I get Word to paste the text and leave it selected? Typically after pasting, I select the pasted text and do a Search and Replace to remove unnecessary paragraphs/line breaks from the pasted text. Thanks, Chris |
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How Can I Leave Pasted Text Selected?
One alternative I did just happen to think of: Once you paste, click the
Paste Options button & select "Apply Style or formatting..." - that will select what you just pasted (but brings up the Styles & Formatting Task Pane, which you don't need). How you might work that into a macro I'm not sure. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "cblocher" wrote in message news I've tried everything...Paste Special doesn't remove the line breaks and I have a macro to remove those, but I wanted to preceed that macro with one that would select the pasted text. Since the pasted text is always a different size, I can't standardize the macro and prompting to count lines isn't reasonable, so if there was a way to force Word to keep the pasted text selected, that's the golden ticket. Sounds like the only way out is to have a macro create a new document, paste the text, select all, run the line-break-removal macro, select all, copy, close the new doc without saving and then paste the results into the destination. Thanks for trying though. "CyberTaz" wrote: Don't know of any way to do so - "selection" isn't a concept with which the clipboard is familiar... all it knows is "content":-) Have you tried using Edit Paste Special - Unformatted Text (or Unformatted Unicode Text) rather than just slapping the stuff in? If this is content being copied from the web you may find the following to be useful: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "cblocher" wrote in message ... Whenever I paste copied text into a Word document, the insertion point moves to the end of the pasted text. How can I get Word to paste the text and leave it selected? Typically after pasting, I select the pasted text and do a Search and Replace to remove unnecessary paragraphs/line breaks from the pasted text. Thanks, Chris |
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How Can I Leave Pasted Text Selected?
That worked beautifully...pastes and selects!
The only thing that remains, and it's very minor, is to dismiss the Find and Replace dialog box...it asks me if I want to search the rest of the document. I want the macro to respond with "No" to close the dialog box, but I don't know how to get the macro to dismiss the prompt. Any ideas? "Lene Fredborg" wrote: If you use a macro to paste the text anyway, you could try to use something like the following to paste the text. Before pasting, the code stores the position of the selection start. After pasting, the start of the selection is set to the stored position, i.e. the selection is extended to include all you have pasted. Dim nPos As Long With Selection nPos = .Start .Paste .Start = nPos End With -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "cblocher" wrote: I've tried everything...Paste Special doesn't remove the line breaks and I have a macro to remove those, but I wanted to preceed that macro with one that would select the pasted text. Since the pasted text is always a different size, I can't standardize the macro and prompting to count lines isn't reasonable, so if there was a way to force Word to keep the pasted text selected, that's the golden ticket. Sounds like the only way out is to have a macro create a new document, paste the text, select all, run the line-break-removal macro, select all, copy, close the new doc without saving and then paste the results into the destination. Thanks for trying though. "CyberTaz" wrote: Don't know of any way to do so - "selection" isn't a concept with which the clipboard is familiar... all it knows is "content":-) Have you tried using Edit Paste Special - Unformatted Text (or Unformatted Unicode Text) rather than just slapping the stuff in? If this is content being copied from the web you may find the following to be useful: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "cblocher" wrote in message ... Whenever I paste copied text into a Word document, the insertion point moves to the end of the pasted text. How can I get Word to paste the text and leave it selected? Typically after pasting, I select the pasted text and do a Search and Replace to remove unnecessary paragraphs/line breaks from the pasted text. Thanks, Chris |
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How Can I Leave Pasted Text Selected?
I don't know how your code looks but check the Find property and the Execute
method of Find (especially Wrap and Replace) in the VBA help. I think that you only need to set Selection.Find.Wrap = wdFindStop. -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "cblocher" wrote: That worked beautifully...pastes and selects! The only thing that remains, and it's very minor, is to dismiss the Find and Replace dialog box...it asks me if I want to search the rest of the document. I want the macro to respond with "No" to close the dialog box, but I don't know how to get the macro to dismiss the prompt. Any ideas? "Lene Fredborg" wrote: If you use a macro to paste the text anyway, you could try to use something like the following to paste the text. Before pasting, the code stores the position of the selection start. After pasting, the start of the selection is set to the stored position, i.e. the selection is extended to include all you have pasted. Dim nPos As Long With Selection nPos = .Start .Paste .Start = nPos End With -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "cblocher" wrote: I've tried everything...Paste Special doesn't remove the line breaks and I have a macro to remove those, but I wanted to preceed that macro with one that would select the pasted text. Since the pasted text is always a different size, I can't standardize the macro and prompting to count lines isn't reasonable, so if there was a way to force Word to keep the pasted text selected, that's the golden ticket. Sounds like the only way out is to have a macro create a new document, paste the text, select all, run the line-break-removal macro, select all, copy, close the new doc without saving and then paste the results into the destination. Thanks for trying though. "CyberTaz" wrote: Don't know of any way to do so - "selection" isn't a concept with which the clipboard is familiar... all it knows is "content":-) Have you tried using Edit Paste Special - Unformatted Text (or Unformatted Unicode Text) rather than just slapping the stuff in? If this is content being copied from the web you may find the following to be useful: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "cblocher" wrote in message ... Whenever I paste copied text into a Word document, the insertion point moves to the end of the pasted text. How can I get Word to paste the text and leave it selected? Typically after pasting, I select the pasted text and do a Search and Replace to remove unnecessary paragraphs/line breaks from the pasted text. Thanks, Chris |
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How Can I Leave Pasted Text Selected?
Thanks for your continued support! It works PERFECTLY! You have saved me at
least two hours a week! My code looks like this: Sub PasteAndReplaceParasInSelection() ' ' PasteAndReplaceParasInSelection Macro ' For pasting text from a Web page into Word ' ' Dim nPos As Long With Selection nPos = .Start .PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText .Start = nPos End With Selection.Find.ClearFormatting Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting With Selection.Find .Text = "^p" .Replacement.Text = " " .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindAsk .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False .Wrap = wdFindStop End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll End Sub "Lene Fredborg" wrote: I don't know how your code looks but check the Find property and the Execute method of Find (especially Wrap and Replace) in the VBA help. I think that you only need to set Selection.Find.Wrap = wdFindStop. -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "cblocher" wrote: That worked beautifully...pastes and selects! The only thing that remains, and it's very minor, is to dismiss the Find and Replace dialog box...it asks me if I want to search the rest of the document. I want the macro to respond with "No" to close the dialog box, but I don't know how to get the macro to dismiss the prompt. Any ideas? "Lene Fredborg" wrote: If you use a macro to paste the text anyway, you could try to use something like the following to paste the text. Before pasting, the code stores the position of the selection start. After pasting, the start of the selection is set to the stored position, i.e. the selection is extended to include all you have pasted. Dim nPos As Long With Selection nPos = .Start .Paste .Start = nPos End With -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "cblocher" wrote: I've tried everything...Paste Special doesn't remove the line breaks and I have a macro to remove those, but I wanted to preceed that macro with one that would select the pasted text. Since the pasted text is always a different size, I can't standardize the macro and prompting to count lines isn't reasonable, so if there was a way to force Word to keep the pasted text selected, that's the golden ticket. Sounds like the only way out is to have a macro create a new document, paste the text, select all, run the line-break-removal macro, select all, copy, close the new doc without saving and then paste the results into the destination. Thanks for trying though. "CyberTaz" wrote: Don't know of any way to do so - "selection" isn't a concept with which the clipboard is familiar... all it knows is "content":-) Have you tried using Edit Paste Special - Unformatted Text (or Unformatted Unicode Text) rather than just slapping the stuff in? If this is content being copied from the web you may find the following to be useful: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "cblocher" wrote in message ... Whenever I paste copied text into a Word document, the insertion point moves to the end of the pasted text. How can I get Word to paste the text and leave it selected? Typically after pasting, I select the pasted text and do a Search and Replace to remove unnecessary paragraphs/line breaks from the pasted text. Thanks, Chris |
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