How Do I Disable all Hypertexted Words in Word for Office X??

[Ron Tavalin]

Hi

I sometimes download quotes from the web that contain hypertexted
words into Word X. What is annoying is that when I go to edit the
text, the hypertexted words are always active (unless I manually
disable them one at a time). Sometimes I have dozens of hypertexted
words, and it is unruly to disable them all one at a time.

How can I disable ALL HTML awareness in Word X? I would never use Word
to work with HTML anyway. How can I get it to stop trying to guess
what I want to do, and simply handle ALL hyperlinked text pasted into
a document as plain vanilla text?

Thanks,

Ron

 

[Clive Huggan]

Ron,

This works:

Copy the text from the web, click at the required position in your Word
document, then Edit menu -> Paste Special -> Unformatted text.

I recorded a macro for a special button that does this, because I use it so
often.

--Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia

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[Dayo Mitchell]

After the fact, you can set the pasted text to Normal style by selecting and
hitting control-spacebar, or Reset Character Format by hitting
command-shift-z. (I have these on my toolbar, although I need to do the
Paste Unformatted macro.)

DM

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Hi Ron:

It's a pain, isn't it. Use Clive's solution, or send me an email and I will
send you a macro that get them out for you.

The benefit of the macro is that you get to keep the formatting. If the
formatting is not important, do it Clive's way...

Cheers


This responds to article <[email protected]>,

Hi

I sometimes download quotes from the web that contain hypertexted
words into Word X. What is annoying is that when I go to edit the
text, the hypertexted words are always active (unless I manually
disable them one at a time). Sometimes I have dozens of hypertexted
words, and it is unruly to disable them all one at a time.

How can I disable ALL HTML awareness in Word X? I would never use Word
to work with HTML anyway. How can I get it to stop trying to guess
what I want to do, and simply handle ALL hyperlinked text pasted into
a document as plain vanilla text?

Thanks,

Ron

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