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Maintaining Formating when copying and pasting..........Advise Ple
From a command promt, if I run "route print" for example and copy it and then
past it into note pad all the fromating columns are maintained. If I paste the same content into a word 2002 doucument all the columns are unaligned.... Question:- Is there a way to prevent this misalignment of all the colums in word 2002, when I copy and paste? I have noticed this problem in many different situations with word. Thanks Dermot |
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Thie issue is that the columns you are starting with are created by spacing
out a mono-spaced font, such as is used in the Command prompt and in notepad. Word normally uses proportional fonts, so the spacing is no longer regular. The quick fix is to select all then apply a monospaced font (like Courier). The better fix, if you need to use the document for anything much or you don't like Courier, is to replace multiple spaces with tabs. You can do that using Find and Replace -- search for [space][space]^w and replace with ^t. "Dermot" wrote in message ... From a command promt, if I run "route print" for example and copy it and then past it into note pad all the fromating columns are maintained. If I paste the same content into a word 2002 doucument all the columns are unaligned.... Question:- Is there a way to prevent this misalignment of all the colums in word 2002, when I copy and paste? I have noticed this problem in many different situations with word. Thanks Dermot |
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Thanks for your informative reply
Dermot "Jezebel" wrote: Thie issue is that the columns you are starting with are created by spacing out a mono-spaced font, such as is used in the Command prompt and in notepad. Word normally uses proportional fonts, so the spacing is no longer regular. The quick fix is to select all then apply a monospaced font (like Courier). The better fix, if you need to use the document for anything much or you don't like Courier, is to replace multiple spaces with tabs. You can do that using Find and Replace -- search for [space][space]^w and replace with ^t. "Dermot" wrote in message ... From a command promt, if I run "route print" for example and copy it and then past it into note pad all the fromating columns are maintained. If I paste the same content into a word 2002 doucument all the columns are unaligned.... Question:- Is there a way to prevent this misalignment of all the colums in word 2002, when I copy and paste? I have noticed this problem in many different situations with word. Thanks Dermot |
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Hi Jezebel,
How do I determine a mono-spaced etc font? or whatever type of font a font is? I could not get:- [space][space]^w To work, I typed it exacly as typed here, but when I did the find and replace it returned a message, 0 found and 0 replaced Please advise, Dermot "Jezebel" wrote: Thie issue is that the columns you are starting with are created by spacing out a mono-spaced font, such as is used in the Command prompt and in notepad. Word normally uses proportional fonts, so the spacing is no longer regular. The quick fix is to select all then apply a monospaced font (like Courier). The better fix, if you need to use the document for anything much or you don't like Courier, is to replace multiple spaces with tabs. You can do that using Find and Replace -- search for [space][space]^w and replace with ^t. "Dermot" wrote in message ... From a command promt, if I run "route print" for example and copy it and then past it into note pad all the fromating columns are maintained. If I paste the same content into a word 2002 doucument all the columns are unaligned.... Question:- Is there a way to prevent this misalignment of all the colums in word 2002, when I copy and paste? I have noticed this problem in many different situations with word. Thanks Dermot |
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Nearly all fonts are proportional spaced. Mono-spaced are the ones that look
like typewriting -- Courier, Letter Gothic, and just one or two others. If you want a test, type two lines containing the same number of text characters (not digits) and see if the characters align vertically. For the Find and Replace: [space] means a single press of the space bar. "Dermot" wrote in message ... Hi Jezebel, How do I determine a mono-spaced etc font? or whatever type of font a font is? I could not get:- [space][space]^w To work, I typed it exacly as typed here, but when I did the find and replace it returned a message, 0 found and 0 replaced Please advise, Dermot "Jezebel" wrote: Thie issue is that the columns you are starting with are created by spacing out a mono-spaced font, such as is used in the Command prompt and in notepad. Word normally uses proportional fonts, so the spacing is no longer regular. The quick fix is to select all then apply a monospaced font (like Courier). The better fix, if you need to use the document for anything much or you don't like Courier, is to replace multiple spaces with tabs. You can do that using Find and Replace -- search for [space][space]^w and replace with ^t. "Dermot" wrote in message ... From a command promt, if I run "route print" for example and copy it and then past it into note pad all the fromating columns are maintained. If I paste the same content into a word 2002 doucument all the columns are unaligned.... Question:- Is there a way to prevent this misalignment of all the colums in word 2002, when I copy and paste? I have noticed this problem in many different situations with word. Thanks Dermot |
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