HELP! Text Paste Problem with large blocks of text

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Hi

I'm using MS Word 2002 (Office XP version) with XP Pro and I'm suddenly
having a problem when I paste large blocks of text.

If I copy a huge bunch of text off the web (normally guitar tabs) when I
paste it into Word it's only pasting one page worth of stuff when I know it
should be at least 4 or 5 pages worth.

The status bar at the bottom is saying pages 1/1 . Doing a print preview of
multiple pages also only shows page one coming up.

I've tried pasting into notebook (as it's just courier text and not
proportionally spaced) and that works fine, but I'd like to be able to
re-paste it back into word and put in page breaks... but no can do.

Switching to "Print Layout" in the view menu only shows page 1/1

Switching to "Normal Layout" shows still page 1/1 but when you scroll to the
bottom of the doc it says
it's at 22" and Line 292, but I can't find any page breaks ??
A print preview still only shows 1 page, despite trying to do a 2x2 page
preview or other multiple page layouts.

Has some strange setting been turned on somewhere?
How do I get it back to normal control where I can see all the pages?

I've done this many times in the past and never had this problem before.

:(
 
I think there's two points here. Possibly you are pasting into Word in HTML
and there are no pages as such in HTML. When you switch to Page Layout View,
Word should then Paginate the document. This may not be happening if you
don't have a Windows default printer driver installed or it may take a very
long time because you have a PC with a slow processor.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://www.mvps.org/word/

Hi

I'm using MS Word 2002 (Office XP version) with XP Pro and I'm suddenly
having a problem when I paste large blocks of text.

If I copy a huge bunch of text off the web (normally guitar tabs) when I
paste it into Word it's only pasting one page worth of stuff when I know it
should be at least 4 or 5 pages worth.

The status bar at the bottom is saying pages 1/1 . Doing a print preview of
multiple pages also only shows page one coming up.

I've tried pasting into notebook (as it's just courier text and not
proportionally spaced) and that works fine, but I'd like to be able to
re-paste it back into word and put in page breaks... but no can do.

Switching to "Print Layout" in the view menu only shows page 1/1

Switching to "Normal Layout" shows still page 1/1 but when you scroll to the
bottom of the doc it says
it's at 22" and Line 292, but I can't find any page breaks ??
A print preview still only shows 1 page, despite trying to do a 2x2 page
preview or other multiple page layouts.

Has some strange setting been turned on somewhere?
How do I get it back to normal control where I can see all the pages?

I've done this many times in the past and never had this problem before.

:(
 
TF said:
I think there's two points here. Possibly you are pasting into Word in HTML
and there are no pages as such in HTML. When you switch to Page Layout View,
Word should then Paginate the document. This may not be happening if you
don't have a Windows default printer driver installed or it may take a very
long time because you have a PC with a slow processor.
Click to expand...


Nope, that can't be it. My printer works fine. My PC is a 1.8Ghz Dell
machine, and
I pasted into notepad, then copied all of that then pasted back into the
document
which would instantly get rid of any HTML.

As my original post stated it's nearly 300 lines of text, each line ending
with a line break
(not word wrapped). That's not too big of a document for Word to deal with.

Any other suggestions?
 
There are line breaks at the end of every line? No wrapping? Check that the
Paragraph formatting isn't set with Keep Lines Together and Keep with Next.

Terry


TF said:
I think there's two points here. Possibly you are pasting into Word in HTML
and there are no pages as such in HTML. When you switch to Page Layout View,
Word should then Paginate the document. This may not be happening if you
don't have a Windows default printer driver installed or it may take a very
long time because you have a PC with a slow processor.
Click to expand...


Nope, that can't be it. My printer works fine. My PC is a 1.8Ghz Dell
machine, and
I pasted into notepad, then copied all of that then pasted back into the
document
which would instantly get rid of any HTML.

As my original post stated it's nearly 300 lines of text, each line ending
with a line break
(not word wrapped). That's not too big of a document for Word to deal with.

Any other suggestions?
 
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