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Paste Special with Hyphens
I often use the "Paste Special - Unformatted Text" option to make sure I
don't paste any unwanted styles or formatting into my documents. However, if the text to be pasted contains non-breaking hyphens, they are pasted in as spaces. This causes me untold grief, since all our document numbers contain hyphens. Wouldn't it make more sense to make non-breaking hyphens come across as hyphens instead of spaces? ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Paste Special with Hyphens
"Idaho Word Man" wrote:
I often use the "Paste Special - Unformatted Text" option to make sure I don't paste any unwanted styles or formatting into my documents. However, if the text to be pasted contains non-breaking hyphens, they are pasted in as spaces. This causes me untold grief, since all our document numbers contain hyphens. Wouldn't it make more sense to make non-breaking hyphens come across as hyphens instead of spaces? If you are pasting from another Word document, what I always do is SHIFT-CTRL-N to my selection in the source document, followed by CTRL-C and CTRL-Z. Basically, I apply the Normal Style, copy and undo the application of the Normal Style. If you are worried about character styles as well, do CTRL-Spacebar before the CTRL-C and then do two CTRL-Z. This will remove character styles (but it will also remove all bold/Italic/Undereline etc. information becasue CTRL-Spacebar resets font attributes. Finish with a simple CTRL-V in the target document. This way, you are pasting from Normal to Normal and not importing any unwanted styles (Which is why I do it this way). It is very fast once you are used to it. If you are pasting from another application or the Web, you could first paste into a scratch document, and then do as I outline above from that scratch document to your target document. This should preserve all your special charaters. |
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