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PREVENTING FOREIGN STYLES COMING INTO WORD



 
 
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Old October 3rd, 2008, 03:20 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.conversions,microsoft.public.word.customization.menustoolbars,microsoft.public.word.docmanagement,microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs,microsoft.public.word.newusers,microsoft.public.word.pagelayout
Pedro
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Default PREVENTING FOREIGN STYLES COMING INTO WORD

Hello Team,

I have created some templates for our staff to use and everything works very
well. None of the styles are auto update and they are based on "no other
style" which means I update each end every one individually if I need to.
Thats the way I want it.

What I can't do is prevent users from bringing in external styles when they
"cut & paste" stuff into the documents. Pretty soon the styles area looks
like a shambles with all sorts of styles that I have not created.

I'd like people to be able to paste text in, and despite me telling them to
convert their source to "TEXT ONLY" before pasting, they want to preserve
their original tables, drawings and other items, so they still manage to
inundate the styles panel with rubbish.

Any ideas on how to prevent external styles being pasted in.

Cheers

Peter



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Old October 3rd, 2008, 07:11 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.conversions,microsoft.public.word.customization.menustoolbars,microsoft.public.word.docmanagement,microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs,microsoft.public.word.newusers,microsoft.public.word.pagelayout
Stefan Blom
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Default PREVENTING FOREIGN STYLES COMING INTO WORD

You can use the following macro in an add-in to intercept the paste command:

Sub EditPaste()
On Error Resume Next
Selection.PasteSpecial datatype:=wdPasteText
End Sub

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"Pedro" wrote in message
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Hello Team,

I have created some templates for our staff to use and everything works
very well. None of the styles are auto update and they are based on "no
other style" which means I update each end every one individually if I
need to. Thats the way I want it.

What I can't do is prevent users from bringing in external styles when
they "cut & paste" stuff into the documents. Pretty soon the styles area
looks like a shambles with all sorts of styles that I have not created.

I'd like people to be able to paste text in, and despite me telling them
to convert their source to "TEXT ONLY" before pasting, they want to
preserve their original tables, drawings and other items, so they still
manage to inundate the styles panel with rubbish.

Any ideas on how to prevent external styles being pasted in.

Cheers

Peter




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Old October 3rd, 2008, 02:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.conversions,microsoft.public.word.customization.menustoolbars,microsoft.public.word.docmanagement,microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs,microsoft.public.word.newusers,microsoft.public.word.pagelayout
Robert M. Franz (RMF)
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Default PREVENTING FOREIGN STYLES COMING INTO WORD

Hello Pedro

Pedro wrote:
I have created some templates for our staff to use and everything works very
well. None of the styles are auto update and they are based on "no other
style" which means I update each end every one individually if I need to.
Thats the way I want it.

What I can't do is prevent users from bringing in external styles when they
"cut & paste" stuff into the documents. Pretty soon the styles area looks
like a shambles with all sorts of styles that I have not created. [..]


depending on the version of Word, you can also restrict the formatting
to your selection of styles. This works pretty good (it's not
bullet-proof because Word itself may seldom create direct formatting on
the go), but nothing else can be set -- the users are even unable to use
direct formatting.

HTH
Robert
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