Ms Office 97 Word Problems

[Ohdah]

I copied some documents off the NET and pasted them to WORD.

When I try to scroll or highlight the text it takes forever to complete the task.

I have run across this problem before, I could usually change some of the special characters such as the: comma’s, periods, quotation marks, etc….

Or I could break up the document into several short pieces and paste them back together and it would work correctly.

And at last I could copy to Notepad, save it as a text file and then convert it back to a document file and all would be fine.

But these two files are stubborn and no matter what I do they are still aggravating corrupt.


Any suggestions on how to cure the headache, will be appreciated.

Ohdah

 

[Anne Troy]

When you paste to Word, try using paste-special as text

 

[Ohdah]

Thanks Dreamboat, but unfortunately that does not help either.

Is this a macro problem or ???

Thanks

Ohdah

 

[Gram123]

I'd suggest copying from the web page and pasting directly into Notepad, rather than into Word, then Notepad, then back again.

If this is no use, the only other problem I can think of at present is that sometimes when copying text from a web page, Word formats it as a table - I guess cos frames or somesuch also get copied. If this is a possibility, CTRL + A to select all, Tables, Convert Table to Text.

HTH

Gram