Pasting text, nothing more

[Howard Brazee]

I have an Excel spreadsheet (with the new menus that I can't figure
out - including finding the "About" setting to see what model of Excel
I'm using).

I wanted to paste a heading from a HTML application, as a heading to
the spreadsheet that I'm keeping track of run data.

I pasted it and it is underlined. I discover that Excel thinks it is
Javascript. I cut it, erase it, & paste it. The Javascript is still
there. I cut it, I paste it to a text editor (Ultra-Edit), then I
cut it from there and paste it into my Excel cell. It apparently is
no longer Javascript, but it is still underlined.

After a lot of experimenting, I see that what I can do to fix this is:
1. Cut the text.
2. Format the cell back to no underlines, no color
3. Paste the text.

Is there a way to avoid this and just paste the text to start off
with?

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

 

[Howard Brazee]

Maybe this is related to another irritation I have:

I format cells to do word wrapping, but whenever I cut and paste from
that same web source, word wrapping for that cell goes away.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

 

[Howard Brazee]

After a lot of experimenting, I see that what I can do to fix this is:
1. Cut the text.
2. Format the cell back to no underlines, no color
3. Paste the text.

My mistake. Upon re-opening the spreadsheet, I found that I haven't
eliminated the JavaScript. Moving to that cell still has Excel
warning me about JavaScript that I thought I had eliminated.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison