How can I get Pub 2003 to stop creating text boxes when "pasting"?

[indutch]

I am new to MS Publisher 2003 though I have a lot of experience with Pub
2000. I do a newsletter for a fraternal organization each month and it is all
done in Publisher.

I get a lot of the articles I publish from members via e-mail. In the past,
all I had to do was copy the text from the e-mail and paste it into my
publication, change the font and its size and I was done. Today was my first
"real" experience with Pub 2003 on a new computer. After I copied an e-mail
to put in the newsletter I attempted to 'paste' it. What I got was a lot of
extra text boxes. In fact, everywhere there was extra space in the e-mail a
new text box was created in the publication.

The only quick cure I could find on the fly was to "forward" the e-mail and
close up all of the text like one big paragraph and copy it again. When I
pasted that into the publication it had no extra text boxes. Now all I have
to do is space it all over again. That works but it's an awful lot of trouble
and work.

Is there a setting I missed somewhere in Pub 2003 that I can change to stop
the creation of text boxes where they aren't needed or wanted?

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated as I'm on a schedule here and
as usual, behind. TIA


Mike

 

[Chuck Davis]

I am new to MS Publisher 2003 though I have a lot of experience with Pub
2000. I do a newsletter for a fraternal organization each month and it is
all
done in Publisher.

I get a lot of the articles I publish from members via e-mail. In the
past,
all I had to do was copy the text from the e-mail and paste it into my
publication, change the font and its size and I was done. Today was my
first
"real" experience with Pub 2003 on a new computer. After I copied an
e-mail
to put in the newsletter I attempted to 'paste' it. What I got was a lot
of
extra text boxes. In fact, everywhere there was extra space in the e-mail
a
new text box was created in the publication.

The only quick cure I could find on the fly was to "forward" the e-mail
and
close up all of the text like one big paragraph and copy it again. When I
pasted that into the publication it had no extra text boxes. Now all I
have
to do is space it all over again. That works but it's an awful lot of
trouble
and work.

Is there a setting I missed somewhere in Pub 2003 that I can change to
stop
the creation of text boxes where they aren't needed or wanted?

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated as I'm on a schedule here and
as usual, behind. TIA


Mike

Mike,

1, Choose Paste Special from the Edit drop down menu.
2. OR, open Notepad and paste. The select all and paste into Publisher.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

I use the Paste Special command. I just wish it was on the right-click menu.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

 

[Mary Sauer]

There is a small utility that sits in your systray, once you copy your text,
click the PureText icon, it will automatically change your copied text into
plain text.
http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
It is free.
If you copy/paste a plain text email you won't get the tables.