Issues with MS Word 98

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Bible John

It seems whenever I copy and paste from a web page (in FireFox) over to Word
98 (which runs in classic) the font always defaults to American Heritage. How
can I fix this?

I do not have this problem with Safari, only in FireFox.
 
J

John McGhie

Hi John:

You probably can't. Some things were never intended to have eternal life,
and Microsoft Word 98 is one of them :)

You can try Edit>Paste Special>As plain text. That should adopt the
formatting of the destination.

If you like the effect, try Elliott's macro that he posted here last week.

Or: Here's my macro, which has a few other checks in it to ensure that the
operation will be possible:

Sub EditPlainPaste()
'
' Macro1 Macro
' Macro recorded 20/12/00 by John McGhie
'
On Error GoTo JustPaste
If ActiveDocument.Kind <> wdDocumentEmail And _
(Selection.Type = wdSelectionIP Or _
Selection.Information(wdWithInTable) = False) Then
Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText
Else
PasteNormal
End If
End

JustPaste:
Selection.Paste
End Sub
Sub PasteNormal()
Selection.Paste

End Sub




On 23/6/07 9:01 PM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "Bible John" <Bible
It seems whenever I copy and paste from a web page (in FireFox) over to Word
98 (which runs in classic) the font always defaults to American Heritage. How
can I fix this?

I do not have this problem with Safari, only in FireFox.

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