OK, I have a question here, but also a workaround.
For whatever reason, when I right click, I don't get "paste special" as an
option. Not that I don't know about it. It's just that on my 18 month old
computer, with XP and Office 2003, "paste special" does not exist. What's
the story with that? I miss having that as an option. I know that cut and
paste is a function of Windows . . . is there a setting I can adjust
somewhere to get "paste special"?
But, I have found a workaround. Whenever I want to strip out formatting, I
paste something into Notepad. That strips out the formatting, so I can then
cut and paste the text elsewhere.
This has one other major plus. On mapping sites, if you cut and paste
driving directions, you get some unusual results when you paste, especially
with symbols for right and left. With the previous described method of
filtering it through Notepad, the symbols are tamed to a simple "right" or
"left". A pretty nifty trick!
William Closure
----- Original Message -----
>
> Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 00:34:28 EDT
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Copying text off Internet
>
> Thank you.... this worked out great. Harriet
>
> -------------------------------------------
>
> If, when you do the paste function, choose "paste special" then
> "unformatted
> text" you'll get the text without all the formatting from the web page.
> That's what I do.
> Virginia
>
>
> On 4/8/06, Hugh Vandervoort <[log in to unmask]
> (mailto:[log in to unmask]) >
> wrote:
>
> In the file menu for IE, click "Save As" and change the file type to
> text. Be aware that this can result in difficult reading, as all the
> formatting is lost.
>
> You might do just as well to copy the text you want directly off the
> page and paste it into a new document in your word processing program.
>
>
> [log in to unmask] (mailto:[log in to unmask]) wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> Some time ago, you had posted something of how you can save 'just the
> text' on a site, and I saved it, but am unable to find where I put it.
> Do you
> remember this? If I am mistaken about this, forgive me. Harriet Byrnes
>
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