copy and paste from .pdf file with style formatting in Word

[terrapinie]

I have to copy and paste a bunch of text from an Adobe Acrobat (.pdf
file) to a word document. I'm using style formatting to format the
text after I paste. (By the way - I'm using Word 2002 SP3). I have
the side bar up with my style formats listed. When I copy and paste
the text, it automatically adds all the styles that the text is in (or
default styles). How can I keep these styles from appearing in this
list? I would like the list to be smaller and not have 'junk' styles
that I'm not actually using put themselves in there. Is there any way
to set a default or change the view of the list so I will only see the
styles I want? I have tried the 'Show:' drop menu at the bottom of
the styles and formatting side bar menu. However, after I do that,
and I click on a style with a word or paragraph selected, it doesn't
change to the style I just clicked on. It stays the same. Please
help!!! I've got many more hours of copying and pasting text - and if
I have to hand format or scroll through a list of 30-40 different
styles - I might go crazy!!!

Thanks in advance,
Laurie

 

[IBPete]

Not sure what you are trying to do but if you want to paste text with no
formatting use.
edit>paste special>unformatted text

this will paste the text sans any source format. it will pick up the
style of the paragraph tag you paste it too.

I use this frequently, so much so that I wrote a macro and have it hot
keyed to alt+V

HTH