Copying Text Only from One Note

[Ryan M. Keith [MSFT]]

Hi all,

I'm having a rather simple problem. I have some notes,and I need
to copy the text from the page so I can paste into another application.
However, my application is rather old, and appears to be rejecting the
paste due to some special characters coming over from One Note. For any
Microsoft folks, I'm trying to copy from One Note, and paste into Clarify.
Is there anyway to get just the text of a note onto the clipboard?

Best Regards,

Ryan M. Keith, BSCSE, MCSE
Microsoft Enterprise Messaging Support
Client Server Infrastructure

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

if you paste into notepad and then copy from notepad, does it work?

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[Ryan M. Keith [MSFT]]

Yes, pasting into notepad, and then copying from notepad works, but that's
enough to make me not use One Note.

Best Regards,

Ryan M. Keith, BSCSE, MCSE
Microsoft Enterprise Messaging Support
Client Server Infrastructure

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

That means it's probably either Unicode causing problems or OLE or both...

 

[Micah Brodsky]

I'd actually second this as an issue worth considering featurewise...
Particularly problematic I've found are the ellipsis (...) character
inserted by auto-correct and certain characters used in the outlining. They
come up as wierd Unicodified characters in notepad and even stranger
characters when pasted into ASCII applications like SSH. It would be nice if
OneNote could just do plain and simple legacy ASCII for text-only pastes.
(On the other hand, obvious workarounds are turning off the ellipsis
auto-correct and only using different, text-friendly outline characters.)

--Micah Brodsky

 

[Scott Lawson]

Try "Paste Special" in Clarify and choose text . . . does that work?