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I pasted text from another source into a document, and then pasted another
piece of text from still another source below it. There was a huge gap between the two, so I tried to delete some lines. Not happening. Then I tried to add some notes below, and suddenly my margins were different. My last version of Word never presented these problems. Was much simpler to use. Any suggestions? I watched a tutorial, was too fast and didn't cover 1% of all the crud that MS has included in this version. Thanks. |
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never heard of that before. but, when pasting text from multiple sources, i
do this (not the best solution, but one that you can do w/o much tech knowledge) Copy the text from your source (CTRL+C) Open Notepad Paste into notepad (CTRL+V) Select what you just pasted, in notepad (CTRL+A) Copy from notepad (CTRL+C) Paste into Word (CTRL+V) Notepad strips all formatting from text, so if you do that, when you paste into word you'll just get the words, and none of the annoying formatting changes that they have with them "bjoshua" wrote: I pasted text from another source into a document, and then pasted another piece of text from still another source below it. There was a huge gap between the two, so I tried to delete some lines. Not happening. Then I tried to add some notes below, and suddenly my margins were different. My last version of Word never presented these problems. Was much simpler to use. Any suggestions? I watched a tutorial, was too fast and didn't cover 1% of all the crud that MS has included in this version. Thanks. |
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Possibly the pasted text included a section break. See
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...xtChanges.html and http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...thSections.htm and http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...ectionInfo.htm. You can get a much better handle on what you're dealing with if you display nonprinting characters (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...intChars.htm); it's easier to see section breaks in Normal view. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "bjoshua" wrote in message ... I pasted text from another source into a document, and then pasted another piece of text from still another source below it. There was a huge gap between the two, so I tried to delete some lines. Not happening. Then I tried to add some notes below, and suddenly my margins were different. My last version of Word never presented these problems. Was much simpler to use. Any suggestions? I watched a tutorial, was too fast and didn't cover 1% of all the crud that MS has included in this version. Thanks. |
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Thanks to both of you. Possibly older versions of Word didn't allow the
copying of formatting with the text, so I didn't encounter the problem before. Anyways, I now have a couple ways to defeat the problem. I really appreciate your time. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Possibly the pasted text included a section break. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...xtChanges.html and http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...thSections.htm and http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...ectionInfo.htm. You can get a much better handle on what you're dealing with if you display nonprinting characters (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...intChars.htm); it's easier to see section breaks in Normal view. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "bjoshua" wrote in message ... I pasted text from another source into a document, and then pasted another piece of text from still another source below it. There was a huge gap between the two, so I tried to delete some lines. Not happening. Then I tried to add some notes below, and suddenly my margins were different. My last version of Word never presented these problems. Was much simpler to use. Any suggestions? I watched a tutorial, was too fast and didn't cover 1% of all the crud that MS has included in this version. Thanks. |
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Very helpful, however I have no clue where "Paste Special" can be found. And
I'm really tired of hunting through 700 options in Word 2007 to find the very few things I need to do with it. Too bad they don't make something more simple and basic. I'm willing to bet that the number of users who actually need all the superfluous crud included in Word is maybe 10% of everyone who has it. People buy it because over the years, before it became so cumbersome, so many folks used it that now almost everyone demands Word formatted communications. So you're trapped, like it or not. But this is just me, venting frustration. Thanks for the informative response. "Peter A" wrote: In article , says... never heard of that before. but, when pasting text from multiple sources, i do this (not the best solution, but one that you can do w/o much tech knowledge) Copy the text from your source (CTRL+C) Open Notepad Paste into notepad (CTRL+V) Select what you just pasted, in notepad (CTRL+A) Copy from notepad (CTRL+C) Paste into Word (CTRL+V) Notepad strips all formatting from text, so if you do that, when you paste into word you'll just get the words, and none of the annoying formatting changes that they have with them Unnecessary effort - just choose Paste Special then Unformatted Text in Word and you get the same result. -- Peter Aitken Author, MS Word for Medical and Technical Writers www.tech-word.com |
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Home | Clipboard | Paste | Paste Special...
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "bjoshua" wrote in message ... Very helpful, however I have no clue where "Paste Special" can be found. And I'm really tired of hunting through 700 options in Word 2007 to find the very few things I need to do with it. Too bad they don't make something more simple and basic. I'm willing to bet that the number of users who actually need all the superfluous crud included in Word is maybe 10% of everyone who has it. People buy it because over the years, before it became so cumbersome, so many folks used it that now almost everyone demands Word formatted communications. So you're trapped, like it or not. But this is just me, venting frustration. Thanks for the informative response. "Peter A" wrote: In article , says... never heard of that before. but, when pasting text from multiple sources, i do this (not the best solution, but one that you can do w/o much tech knowledge) Copy the text from your source (CTRL+C) Open Notepad Paste into notepad (CTRL+V) Select what you just pasted, in notepad (CTRL+A) Copy from notepad (CTRL+C) Paste into Word (CTRL+V) Notepad strips all formatting from text, so if you do that, when you paste into word you'll just get the words, and none of the annoying formatting changes that they have with them Unnecessary effort - just choose Paste Special then Unformatted Text in Word and you get the same result. -- Peter Aitken Author, MS Word for Medical and Technical Writers www.tech-word.com |
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Thanks so much. No doubt, I'd have never found it!!
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Home | Clipboard | Paste | Paste Special... -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "bjoshua" wrote in message ... Very helpful, however I have no clue where "Paste Special" can be found. And I'm really tired of hunting through 700 options in Word 2007 to find the very few things I need to do with it. Too bad they don't make something more simple and basic. I'm willing to bet that the number of users who actually need all the superfluous crud included in Word is maybe 10% of everyone who has it. People buy it because over the years, before it became so cumbersome, so many folks used it that now almost everyone demands Word formatted communications. So you're trapped, like it or not. But this is just me, venting frustration. Thanks for the informative response. "Peter A" wrote: In article , says... never heard of that before. but, when pasting text from multiple sources, i do this (not the best solution, but one that you can do w/o much tech knowledge) Copy the text from your source (CTRL+C) Open Notepad Paste into notepad (CTRL+V) Select what you just pasted, in notepad (CTRL+A) Copy from notepad (CTRL+C) Paste into Word (CTRL+V) Notepad strips all formatting from text, so if you do that, when you paste into word you'll just get the words, and none of the annoying formatting changes that they have with them Unnecessary effort - just choose Paste Special then Unformatted Text in Word and you get the same result. -- Peter Aitken Author, MS Word for Medical and Technical Writers www.tech-word.com |
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You can download a command reference (it's an Excel sheet) from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en. That's where I got the info. There's also an online version at http://office.microsoft.com/assistan...HA100744321033 There's also a downloadable add-in at http://www.officelabs.com:80/project...s/default.aspx that allows you to search for commands and find out where they are in Word 2007. There's also the Get Started tab add-in (which I confess I haven't tried yet) at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "bjoshua" wrote in message ... Thanks so much. No doubt, I'd have never found it!! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Home | Clipboard | Paste | Paste Special... -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "bjoshua" wrote in message ... Very helpful, however I have no clue where "Paste Special" can be found. And I'm really tired of hunting through 700 options in Word 2007 to find the very few things I need to do with it. Too bad they don't make something more simple and basic. I'm willing to bet that the number of users who actually need all the superfluous crud included in Word is maybe 10% of everyone who has it. People buy it because over the years, before it became so cumbersome, so many folks used it that now almost everyone demands Word formatted communications. So you're trapped, like it or not. But this is just me, venting frustration. Thanks for the informative response. "Peter A" wrote: In article , says... never heard of that before. but, when pasting text from multiple sources, i do this (not the best solution, but one that you can do w/o much tech knowledge) Copy the text from your source (CTRL+C) Open Notepad Paste into notepad (CTRL+V) Select what you just pasted, in notepad (CTRL+A) Copy from notepad (CTRL+C) Paste into Word (CTRL+V) Notepad strips all formatting from text, so if you do that, when you paste into word you'll just get the words, and none of the annoying formatting changes that they have with them Unnecessary effort - just choose Paste Special then Unformatted Text in Word and you get the same result. -- Peter Aitken Author, MS Word for Medical and Technical Writers www.tech-word.com |
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