Paste from Word Without the Formats

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wendy l

Since my computer was upgraded from Windows NT Office 97 to Windows XP
Office XP, I've encountered an unusual problem. Before the upgrade, I could
copy text from a word document and it would use good html tags in frontpage,
now I get a formatting style that I don't like involving tags like <span
style="font-size: 11.0pt">. I need my html documents to use no excess tags
or non-backwards compatible code. I'd like to be able to get my Office XP
Word to perform like the Office 97 Word on pasting operations. Is there
anyway to accomplish this?
 
Your suggestion is exactly what I have been doing to compensate for this
problem. However, I am then forced to edit the text in frontpage to ensure
the formatting looks as it appears in the word document. Plain text will
copy into frontpage with no bolded words where they should be bolded,
default font formats, no bulleted text, etc., as I'm sure you know. What a
time waster this is for me when I was so spoiled by being able to copy and
paste from Word 97 without all this hassle. A five minute job has turned
into an hour or longer for me. I assume from your answer there is no way to
make Word XP paste function perform as it did in Word 97?


Try copying the content into Notepad, and then from Notepad to FrontPage.

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~ Kathleen Anderson
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
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You could try, in Word, Save As and choose RTF format.
In FrontPage, create a new page and use Insert - File to place the RTF
document on the page. Then cut and paste from this new page (which can be
deleted when you have finished with it).
This was tested with a very small document with FP2003, I do not know if
using MSO xp will make any difference. The formatting was more or less
retained and not overly bloated as cut and paste from Word would do.
IMHO not perfect, but worth trying.

HTH
Ron
 
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