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Copying content of HTML Document
Sometime ago, I posted a question on the Microsoft forum that involved
wanting to keep the original creation date of a Word document when I retrieved it. The Word program was changing the date to the current date. A Microsoft adviser responded with the suggested changes I needed to make. However, I now have another problem because of this. If I copy some text from a Web HTML document and copy it to Word, the document is full of hyperlinks and the text is unreadable unless I manually go through the text and convert all the hyperlinks to text. This is not a usable solution. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. |
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try this:
Right-click on any hyperlink and select Toggle Field Codes. mm18 wrote: Sometime ago, I posted a question on the Microsoft forum that involved wanting to keep the original creation date of a Word document when I retrieved it. The Word program was changing the date to the current date. A Microsoft adviser responded with the suggested changes I needed to make. However, I now have another problem because of this. If I copy some text from a Web HTML document and copy it to Word, the document is full of hyperlinks and the text is unreadable unless I manually go through the text and convert all the hyperlinks to text. This is not a usable solution. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. |
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Thank you for your reply. I am aware that I can get the text by right
clicking on 'Toggle Field Codes'. When the document contains many hyperlinks, this is a slow, tedious process. There was a time, before I made whatever changes the Microsoft adviser recommended, that I could copy the text of the HTML document and it would be directly readable, without the hyperlinks, and I am trying to get back to that point. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: try this: Right-click on any hyperlink and select Toggle Field Codes. mm18 wrote: Sometime ago, I posted a question on the Microsoft forum that involved wanting to keep the original creation date of a Word document when I retrieved it. The Word program was changing the date to the current date. A Microsoft adviser responded with the suggested changes I needed to make. However, I now have another problem because of this. If I copy some text from a Web HTML document and copy it to Word, the document is full of hyperlinks and the text is unreadable unless I manually go through the text and convert all the hyperlinks to text. This is not a usable solution. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. |
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Do you actually want the hyperlinks gone, or do you just want to *not*
see {HYPERLINK url.com }? Toggle Field Codes should hide or show the field codes for the entire document, I thought. Try hitting Alt-F9 instead, and if that still doesn't hide the field codes, go to Tools | Options | View and uncheck the box for field codes. Your description of the two linked problems suggests you just want to hide the field codes. But if you actually want the hyperlinks gone, then Select all, and use control-shift-F9 to convert them all to plain text. But this will wipe all your fields (cross-references, table of contents, etc), not just hyperlinks. I'd test it on a COPY first. mm18 wrote: Thank you for your reply. I am aware that I can get the text by right clicking on 'Toggle Field Codes'. When the document contains many hyperlinks, this is a slow, tedious process. There was a time, before I made whatever changes the Microsoft adviser recommended, that I could copy the text of the HTML document and it would be directly readable, without the hyperlinks, and I am trying to get back to that point. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: try this: Right-click on any hyperlink and select Toggle Field Codes. mm18 wrote: Sometime ago, I posted a question on the Microsoft forum that involved wanting to keep the original creation date of a Word document when I retrieved it. The Word program was changing the date to the current date. A Microsoft adviser responded with the suggested changes I needed to make. However, I now have another problem because of this. If I copy some text from a Web HTML document and copy it to Word, the document is full of hyperlinks and the text is unreadable unless I manually go through the text and convert all the hyperlinks to text. This is not a usable solution. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. |
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Daiya Mitchell wrote:
Toggle Field Codes should hide or show the field codes for the entire document, I thought. Wrongly. Considering I tested it and then wrote the wrong thing, I'm going to claim a senior moment. |
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I just always use Alt+F9. I also added a button to my toolbar to do the same
thing (back in the days when remembering Alt+F9 was beyond me g). The button does have the advantage that a glance at it shows the current status of field code display (on or off). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message ... Daiya Mitchell wrote: Toggle Field Codes should hide or show the field codes for the entire document, I thought. Wrongly. Considering I tested it and then wrote the wrong thing, I'm going to claim a senior moment. |
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?B?bW0xOA==?= wrote in
: Sometime ago, I posted a question on the Microsoft forum that involved wanting to keep the original creation date of a Word document when I retrieved it. The Word program was changing the date to the current date. A Microsoft adviser responded with the suggested changes I needed to make. However, I now have another problem because of this. If I copy some text from a Web HTML document and copy it to Word, the document is full of hyperlinks and the text is unreadable unless I manually go through the text and convert all the hyperlinks to text. This is not a usable solution. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. To begin. . . .in the event that your copying and pasting an entire web page into Word? Your likley copying many of the page navagational links or even 3d party links (very common in web pages today) that are irrelevant to the material that you intended to copy. A simple method of reduction of irrelavant material is to use the websites "print option" which drastically reduces content. As an alternative to copying the page content into a Word document? I frequently (if the entire page is relevant) save a local copy using my browsers SAVE AS option. In the event just a paragraph or two is relevant to my interests, I copy and past that portion along with the source URL into either Notepad or an RTF file. It's not necessary to co-mingle all these items in a WORD format or atmosphere today, which results in excessive tasks. Rather, there are many desktop tool which allow you to view locally saved materials in the many file formats (different softwares) that your computer has installed. (I use Copernic Desktop Tool). Another option for you to consider is viweing the PRINT page-SOURCE html and making html reductions in that format (not a good idea to attempt copying html into Word), there exists many tools for removing either ALL html or selected portions. |
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