[BULK] - Re: [thelist] Word for websites?

Carl Edwards edwards at vitesse.com
Tue Jun 29 13:43:32 CDT 2004


That annoys me also (especially when special characters like
copyright) are in the text.  I usually save to an ASCII (.txt)
version and then copy and past from it.  Of course my co-workers
don't do that so our CMS has to convert the hex strings to 
valid HTML entities.

-Carl Edwards


>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Scott Brady [mailto:evolt at scottbrady.net]
>  Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 7:02 AM
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>  Subject: [BULK] - Re: [thelist] Word for websites?
>  
>  
>  Original Message:
>  > From: Chris Price 
>  
>  > One thing I have found helpful about Word: if I copy from 
>  my browser and
>  > paste into Word it keeps the formatting. A bit like using 
>  rtf files.
>  
>  Funny. That's one of the things about Word that annoys me. 
>  Usually, I just want the text and not the formatting when 
>  I'm copying and pasting from a browser.  So, I'm forced to 
>  use the "paste special" command just to paste plain text.
>  
>  Scott
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