manipulating text in Word

[Let'sgoflying!]

How do you strip out all the junk that comes when you ctrl C a webpage, and then paste into Word? See attached ex.
I would like plain text as in black not blue font, no icons, no boxes.......just like what I see as I am typing this.
Thanks!

 

[Ken Ibold]

There's gotta be a better way than what I do. I copy everything, paste it into the body of an email, select "plain text" in the email, copy everything back to the file.

 

[SCCutler]

Dave:

You should be able to block it, copy it, then "Paste Special" (should be on the "edit" menu), selecting "without fonts or attributes," "unformatted text," something like that.

I don't have Word, so I apologize in advance for not being able to precisely show you, but then again, Microsoft changes it up so much between releases that advice for one version might or might not be right on for the next. But I am confident Word has that- somewhere.

Edit:

See these:

http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/HowPasteOptionsWorks.html
http://www.lockergnome.com/windows/2005/05/17/paste-special-in-word-2002/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,34769-page,1/article.html

 

[ScottM]

Dave:

You should be able to block it, copy it, then "Paste Special" (should be on the "edit" menu), selecting "without fonts or attributes," "unformatted text," something like that.

Always, ALWays, ALWAYS use 'Paste Special' when importing text into Word other wise you will corrupt your formating. To do so from the edit menu select paste special and then the pop menu use 'unformatted text'. That will bring in the text using the format of the paragraph where your cursor is located.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

Thanks guys! Ken I too had been using my own shortcut with Notepad but this is mo betta.

 

[mikea]

This is the story of my life as my day job is to be a human lookup table because the dozens of computer systems we have to use don't talk to each other. I have to pass the data between them. (What year is this? )

You'll find Paste Special on the drag menu on the right mouse button hold.

 

[SCCutler]

...or you could avoid all this obstruction between you and the finished, written, product, as well as designed-in obsolescence and file-format-forced upgrades.

Just use WordPerfect.

/rant

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Edit...Paste Special...Plain text.

I wind up using that more than the default. I suppose more people want the formatting or else they would have made plain text the default. If you do it often enough, record a macro & link it to a button on the tool bar to save a couple of mouse clicks.