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Pasting behind the cursor
When I have a numbered list set up, and then paste text, just after a number,
what happens is that Word inserts the text immediately BEFORE the number, and as regular text, as opposed to part of the list. How can I change this behavior? See the image linked to he http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/6374/cursorbi0.png Before making this image, I placed the cursor right after the (h), where it is in the image. Pasting my text, I would have thought, would have inserted the stats about Rhode Island, CA, Russia, and Asia AFTER the letter (h), not before. -- Paul MS Office Pro 2003 XP Home Dell Inspiron 1501 |
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Try edit paste special unformatted text to paste and adopt the format at
the cursor. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Paul wrote: When I have a numbered list set up, and then paste text, just after a number, what happens is that Word inserts the text immediately BEFORE the number, and as regular text, as opposed to part of the list. How can I change this behavior? See the image linked to he http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/6374/cursorbi0.png Before making this image, I placed the cursor right after the (h), where it is in the image. Pasting my text, I would have thought, would have inserted the stats about Rhode Island, CA, Russia, and Asia AFTER the letter (h), not before. |
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Graham, thanks for the reply. I did what you said, and it strewed each line
of text onto its own number. For example, with Lines 1 and 2 already typed in, and the cursor at line 3, it gave me text not only at line 3, but at lines 4 through 8 as well. SO this is a start, but I'd still like something a bit less awkward. Perhaps I should just paste it and then try to find a style that will automatcially incorporate the text into the numbered list? Yes that's it. I can just paste the text into the doc, without forming a new list #. Then, in teh style menu, there is an option that says "1. Numbered". Selecting the text I just pasted in, and then selecting the style, inserted it into the numbered list. Graham, you're a genius. -- Paul MS Office Pro 2003 XP Home Dell Inspiron 1501 "Graham Mayor" wrote: Try edit paste special unformatted text to paste and adopt the format at the cursor. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Paul wrote: When I have a numbered list set up, and then paste text, just after a number, what happens is that Word inserts the text immediately BEFORE the number, and as regular text, as opposed to part of the list. How can I change this behavior? See the image linked to he http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/6374/cursorbi0.png Before making this image, I placed the cursor right after the (h), where it is in the image. Pasting my text, I would have thought, would have inserted the stats about Rhode Island, CA, Russia, and Asia AFTER the letter (h), not before. |
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The problem you are encountering is that you are inserting a block of text
that is formatted into several paragraphs. This is always an issue when you copy others' work into your documents. See also http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Paul wrote: Graham, thanks for the reply. I did what you said, and it strewed each line of text onto its own number. For example, with Lines 1 and 2 already typed in, and the cursor at line 3, it gave me text not only at line 3, but at lines 4 through 8 as well. SO this is a start, but I'd still like something a bit less awkward. Perhaps I should just paste it and then try to find a style that will automatically incorporate the text into the numbered list? Yes that's it. I can just paste the text into the doc, without forming a new list #. Then, in the style menu, there is an option that says "1. Numbered". Selecting the text I just pasted in, and then selecting the style, inserted it into the numbered list. Graham, you're a genius. Try edit paste special unformatted text to paste and adopt the format at the cursor. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Paul wrote: When I have a numbered list set up, and then paste text, just after a number, what happens is that Word inserts the text immediately BEFORE the number, and as regular text, as opposed to part of the list. How can I change this behavior? See the image linked to he http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/6374/cursorbi0.png Before making this image, I placed the cursor right after the (h), where it is in the image. Pasting my text, I would have thought, would have inserted the stats about Rhode Island, CA, Russia, and Asia AFTER the letter (h), not before. |
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I'm not convinced its the formatting--even doing this inside the same
document, with the same exact formatting, gave me the same results--text pasted behind the cursor. -- Paul MS Office Pro 2003 XP Home Dell Inspiron 1501 "Graham Mayor" wrote: The problem you are encountering is that you are inserting a block of text that is formatted into several paragraphs. This is always an issue when you copy others' work into your documents. See also http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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