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Paste changes spacing / want to keep headers bold, and keep the normal spacing that I normallly have.
I have a question. I know I can paste something into notepad and it erases the formatting and then I can manage it how I want it in Word.
What I need to know though is this. Sometimes I paste some information for myself from a webpage to Word. It's something I want to keep and use, and I change the formatting to suit my needs. For example, the page has certain headers in bold, and I like to keep them that way. If I was to use notepad, then I would have to go in and recreate the bold items and there are too many in this document and that would be too time consuming. So, I just paste it directly to Word. When I do that though, it puts large spacing between the lines. It's not like that on the web page, but it is when I paste it in Word. When I go to try to correct this one line at a time, it's time consuming and still doesn't always turn out right. So, I want to be able to do a 'select all', and figure out how to make the spacing NORMAL like most documents normally create automatically AND be able to keep my words in BOLD in the document. I've tried 'auto format' and that does not fix it. Hope I made that clear enough for someone to figure out and reply back to. |
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Paste changes spacing / want to keep headers bold, and keep the normal spacing that I normallly have.
Each line is probably ending up as a separate paragraph. See the article
“Clean Web Text” at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Tawrena" wrote in message ... I have a question. I know I can paste something into notepad and it erases the formatting and then I can manage it how I want it in Word. What I need to know though is this. Sometimes I paste some information for myself from a webpage to Word. It's something I want to keep and use, and I change the formatting to suit my needs. For example, the page has certain headers in bold, and I like to keep them that way. If I was to use notepad, then I would have to go in and recreate the bold items and there are too many in this document and that would be too time consuming. So, I just paste it directly to Word. When I do that though, it puts large spacing between the lines. It's not like that on the web page, but it is when I paste it in Word. When I go to try to correct this one line at a time, it's time consuming and still doesn't always turn out right. So, I want to be able to do a 'select all', and figure out how to make the spacing NORMAL like most documents normally create automatically AND be able to keep my words in BOLD in the document. I've tried 'auto format' and that does not fix it. Hope I made that clear enough for someone to figure out and reply back to. |
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Paste changes spacing / want to keep headers bold, and keep the normal spacing that I normallly have.
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It's difficult to say, since we can't look over you shoulder... Could be one of two things 1. The text from the webpage has been formatted with a style that's in the target document (H1 = Heading 1, for example). And the text is taking on the style format. In this case, redefining the style format should apply to everything formatted with the style. If you're unfamiliar with this concept, tell us the version of Word you have and we should be able to point you on the path :-) 2. The formatting is coming through as part of the HTML. In this case, it's "direct formatting", of the paragraph type. Try selecting some text like this and pressing Ctrl+Q. What I need to know though is this. Sometimes I paste some information for myself from a webpage to Word. It's something I want to keep and use, and I change the formatting to suit my needs. For example, the page has certain headers in bold, and I like to keep them that way. If I was to use notepad, then I would have to go in and recreate the bold items and there are too many in this document and that would be too time consuming. So, I just paste it directly to Word. When I do that though, it puts large spacing between the lines. It's not like that on the web page, but it is when I paste it in Word. When I go to try to correct this one line at a time, it's time consuming and still doesn't always turn out right. So, I want to be able to do a 'select all', and figure out how to make the spacing NORMAL like most documents normally create automatically AND be able to keep my words in BOLD in the document. I've tried 'auto format' and that does not fix it. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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