atw: Re: Word again
- From: Rhonda Bracey <rhonda.bracey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 12:28:25 +0800
Ummm… CyberText is me, not Ted.
And a quick shortcut for format painter is Ctrl+Shift+C to copy the formatting
(style if there is no manual formatting) and Ctrl+Shift+V to apply that
formatting to another section (see:
http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/word-run-format-painter-with-the-keyboard/
)
Rhonda
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Neil Maloney
Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2014 11:05 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Word again
Christine, okay, then pasting the text as unformatted text appears to be the
way you need to go.
From Ted Mooney's CyberText Newsletter (hello, Ted) ...
To paste copied text as unformatted text in Word 2010 using the keyboard:
Press Ctrl+v to copy the text into your document.
Press Ctrl to activate the Paste Options icon.
Press t to select the ‘Text only’ option (pressing t is a separate action
to pressing Ctrl in step 2 — DO NOT press them together otherwise it won’t
work).
The newsletter is at:
http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/word-2010-keyboard-shortcut-to-paste-unformatted-text/
... and I'm assuming that where there is more than one paragraph of text copied
in, the above works for all of the copied paragraphs ... but, don't know for
sure and can't confirm.
Cheers,
Neil.
On 2/09/2014 12:55 PM, Christine Kent wrote:
Unfortunately I have no ability to control source documents and so cannot get
any template with a macro officially distributed. In addition, no-one I work
with would even know what a macro is. Most documents are modified from existing
documents, whence the mess. This is something I have no authority or influence
to change.
I have to start from their starting point and take them one step or two
further. Word Nirvana is not the proposed destination – just a little less
carnage would be a high level achievement.
I can maybe get a utility downloaded and distributed to everyone if I can
guarantee it is useful and safe. I will try that. But as a backup, I would
still love to find all those rules which I will publish on my blog. My Word
Numbering instructions there are very popular, and this might be a useful
addition.
Cheers,
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Neil Maloney
Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2014 12:35 PM
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Subject: atw: Re: Word again
I use PureText too, and agree with how extremely useful it is. If there are
problems in getting the client to run / install the program on its installed
computer base, the following Macro does the same thing (and e.g. needs to be
assigned a control key combination to activate it).
Neil.
Sub CopyOver()
On Error GoTo nextwindow
MyWindows = Windows.Count
If MyWindows > 2 Then
MsgBox "Too many documents are open." + vbCr + vbCr + "Please close all
opened documents except the document you are copying text from, and the
document you are copying the text to."
GoTo Endit
ElseIf MyWindows < 2 Then
MsgBox "Not enough documents are open." + vbCr + vbCr + "Please ensure
you have opened the document you are copying text from, and the document you
are copying the text to."
GoTo Endit
End If
'Select paragraph
Selection.StartOf Unit:=wdParagraph, Extend:=wdMove
Selection.Extend
charmoved = Selection.EndOf(Unit:=wdParagraph, Extend:=wdExtend)
If charmoved = 0 Then MsgBox "Selection unchanged"
Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1 ' don't want para mark, this
contains the style
Selection.Font.Reset
Selection.Copy
Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdParagraph, Count:=1
ActiveWindow.Previous.Activate
GoTo PasteIt
nextwindow:
ActiveWindow.Next.Activate
PasteIt:
Selection.PasteAndFormat (wdPasteDefault)
Selection.TypeParagraph
Endit:
End Sub
On 2/09/2014 12:11 PM, Katherine Munro wrote:
Hi,
If you regularly do the Notepad round trip (or use Word's paste without
formatting), then have a look at PureText. Brilliantly simple open source tool
that uses an alternative keyboard shortcut to paste without formatting.
Regards,
Katherine
On Tuesday, 2 September 2014, Bob T
<bob.trussler@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:bob.trussler@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Christine and others,
When I have issues with Word trying to be helpful and not doing what I want, I
do this:
1 - copy text
2 - paste into Notepad
3 - cut from Notepad
4 - paste into Word document
5 - if the style needed adjusting, use the Format Painter tool to apply the
style.
Yes, it is clunky and four steps too long, but it always worked for me.
A shorter vesion is to
1 - copy text
2 - paste into Word document
3 - use Format Painter to tidy up styles.
Bob T
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