Why can't I copy & paste manual line breaks?

[Stan The Man]

Whenever I copy and paste text containing manual line breaks into a
Word 9 document the manual breaks are replaced by paragraph marks. This
happens even if I copy an address from a letter and paste it into a
Word envelope document. It also happens no matter whether I choose to
paste styled or unformatted text. And of course it happens when pasting
from an external source, eg a SimpleText document.

I'm sure that I am copying all the text including the following
paragraph mark. So what is the secret? TIA.

Stan

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

If by Word 9 you mean Word 2001/X, the copy/paste is done in HTML format.
Since the Mac uses a single character for a paragraph mark, Line breaks are
automatically converted to paragraph marks.

The PC uses two characters for a paragraph mark so Word can tell the
difference.

Sorry


This responds to microsoft.public.mac.office.word on Tue, 08 Jul 2003

Whenever I copy and paste text containing manual line breaks into a
Word 9 document the manual breaks are replaced by paragraph marks. This
happens even if I copy an address from a letter and paste it into a
Word envelope document. It also happens no matter whether I choose to
paste styled or unformatted text. And of course it happens when pasting
from an external source, eg a SimpleText document.

I'm sure that I am copying all the text including the following
paragraph mark. So what is the secret? TIA.

Stan

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[Stan The Man]

It's Word 9.01 (Office 2001) running in Os 9.1. Thanks for the
explanation. I can call this a bug, then.

Stan