Copied paragraph line spacing

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Sashi

When I copy and paste things to OneNote, the line spacing is often missing
(unlike with Word). There are no spaces between paragraphs, like the
original, making the OneNote copy hard to read. Other than manually going
through and adding a line, is there a way to get OneNote to put line spacing
like the original has it?
 
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Mike Hofer

When I copy and paste things to OneNote, the line spacing is often missing
(unlike with Word). There are no spaces between paragraphs, like the
original, making the OneNote copy hard to read. Other than manually going
through and adding a line, is there a way to get OneNote to put line spacing
like the original has it?

If anyone has an answer to this, I'd love to hear it. I'm using
OneNote 2007 to consolidate all my project's documentation (it's a
dream), but I was disappointed that the paragraph and line spacing
information was lost. (Theoretically, it's just X/HTML, so I can't
imagine why they wouldn't have preserved it.)

Thanks!
Mike
 
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Sashi

I have been wanting a solution to this problem for a long time. In fact,
the main reason I upgraded to OneNote 2007 was that I thought they would
finally have fixed this annoying problem. However it seems that they
haven't. It's been months since I first asked this question. There has not
yet been a solution posted here, nor have I seen it in my searchs of other
posts regarding this problem. There isn't even so much as a response here.
It's just been ignored.

Yesterday, I finally found a solution. It is not perfect, but given that
when doing research for graduate studies I sometimes download and read 30
long and complex academic articles in a day, it is imperative that I find a
solution so that my time and energy is not spent manually going through each
article and inserting paragraph breaks to make the material more readable.

That solution is Evernote. I have been a huge fan of OneNote ever since its
inception. Certainly there are things OneNote can do that Evernote can't.
However there are several areas -- significant areas -- where I find Evernote
to be much more useful and practical. This is one of them. Interestingly,
Evernote is free.

I will look forward to the next version of OneNote (2010?) to see if OneNote
either 1) stops promoting its web clipping feature to researchers, or 2)
actually makes its web clipping feature work in a fully useful and practical
manner.

Sashi
 
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hamishmacdonald

I have the same issue: nearly every Web page I send to OneNote using the
button in IE7 turns paragraph returns into line-breaks, making the page into
one continuous block of text, which is difficult to read.

A very few pages carry over properly, but most are subject to this
reformatting. It would be great if this were fixed with an update.

- Hamish
 
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Bob

Indeed, this is a major problem with OneNote and begs the question as to why
it hasn't been acknowledged or resolved!? Anybody from Microsoft like to
comment?
 
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Ben M. Schorr, MVP

It would be easier to follow if you quoted what you were referring to. I'm
afraid in my newsreader all I see is your post and no clear indication of
what major problem you're referring to.

I guess I can infer from the subject line that it has something to do with
paragraph spacing. Without more to go on I can only say that OneNote isn't
intended to produce finished or heavily structured documents.

If you can be more specific then perhaps so can I? :)


--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com/onenote.htm
 
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Bob

Apologies Ben, I thought you would know from the thread. Yes, you are
correct OneNote does not copy the formatting/structure when one
copies/pastes into it from browsers/PDFs. It's not complex formatting so I
find it strange amd incredibly irritating that OneNote can't handle it. If I
can help with specifics, please let me know but any basic copy/paste
operations have the problem.

Thanks
Bob
 
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GFinlay

I have the same problem. If I copy text from web pages (using IE7 as
browser), the spacing between paragraphs is lost in OneNote 2007. For
instance, try the URL for the following NY Times
article:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/w...partner=homepage&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

Then copy the 2nd-4th paragraphs and paste into a OneNote page.

In IE7, the paragraphs have the proper spacing between paragraphs to make
reading legible, e.g. see original text below:

--------
But the American officials themselves offered an immediate warning against
overstating the impact
that the death of Mr. Zarqawi, the most wanted insurgent in Iraq, would have
on prospects that
American and Iraqi forces can gain the upper hand in the conflict. Among
other things, they said
they expected Al Qaeda to name a successor to Mr. Zarqawi quickly from among
his closest aides.

The killing of Mr. Zarqawi and five others gathered with him in an isolated
safe house north of Baghdad
was announced on Thursday morning, ending a long and often dispiriting hunt
for the 39-year-old
terrorist leader. Mr. Zarqawi had become an almost mythic, if widely hated,
figure among American
troops, still more so among Iraqi Shiites who were his main victims.

The Jordanian-born militant carried a $25 million American bounty for his
role in directing
many of the conflict's most merciless attacks, including scores of suicide
bombings, kidnappings
and beheadings, some of which he was believed to have carried out personally.
---------

But in OneNote, all the paragraph spacing between was lost, e.g. :
----------
But the American officials themselves offered an immediate warning against
overstating the impact
that the death of Mr. Zarqawi, the most wanted insurgent in Iraq, would have
on prospects that
American and Iraqi forces can gain the upper hand in the conflict. Among
other things, they said
they expected Al Qaeda to name a successor to Mr. Zarqawi quickly from among
his closest aides.
The killing of Mr. Zarqawi and five others gathered with him in an isolated
safe house north of Baghdad
was announced on Thursday morning, ending a long and often dispiriting hunt
for the 39-year-old
terrorist leader. Mr. Zarqawi had become an almost mythic, if widely hated,
figure among American
troops, still more so among Iraqi Shiites who were his main victims.
The Jordanian-born militant carried a $25 million American bounty for his
role in directing
many of the conflict's most merciless attacks, including scores of suicide
bombings, kidnappings
and beheadings, some of which he was believed to have carried out personally.
 
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MarkInOz

There must be a lot of frustrated users with this same problem. There appears
to be no way to set or modify spacing between paragraphs either when typing
text in or correctly copying text from IE or a word page. In Word you can set
separate line spacing and paragraph spacing, in OneNote all you can set is
line spacing! When manually typing information into OneNote, I would have
thought that paragraph spacing (and the ability to change/specify this) was a
basic formatting item that would have been included as a matter of course.

Surely line spacing in text copied from an IE page or from a Word doc (pre
2007 ver) should be able to come across and preserve the paragraph spacing of
the original source. Especially from Word - we are talking about two products
from Microsoft here! The only way that I can find to preserve paragraph
spacing when transferring information to OneNote from IE or Word is to create
a screen clipping - which is not what I want as this is an image and not
editable text (AFAIK).
 

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