Re: In word - brackets appear around phrases that I copy

[michae...@officeformac.com]

Try the "paste special" option and choose either "formatted text" or "unformatted text." Formatted will usually paste in your text as you have it, and unformatted will usually pick the style from the document that you're pasting your text into.

[macropod]

The brackets that get inserted around the copies text are probably bookmark range indicators. If you go to Insert|Bookmark after
they first appear, you'll probably find a bookmark named OLE_LINK1. Add-ins like Adobe Acrobat seem to have the habit of causing
this (but I have no idea why), when the copied data are pasted to another OLE-aware app, even when there's no apparent reason for
the Add-in to involve itself in the process.

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Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]

<michae...@officeformac.com> wrote in message news:59b7d...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw...

[Clive Huggan]

You can either get rid of the distraction of unwanted bookmarks by choosing
bookmarks and deleting the OLE_LINK ones, or making bookmarks invisible in
Word's settings.

(To the original poster: Your post via Mactopia was not seen by the
volunteer experts in the Word:Mac newsgroup, and the reply was generalized
because the version of Word is not known. Should you want to discuss this
further and make your post visible, please see
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/AccessNewsgroups.html

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the Americas and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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On 4/10/09 6:55 PM, in article eZ1ZegMR...@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl,

[bryan ebstyne]

Thank you. You rock. Thank you.

On Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 1:41:18 AM UTC+2, Clive Huggan wrote:
> ... or making bookmarks invisible in Word's settings.

[Billing BrightMindsMD]

Yay! this fixed the problem, thank you :)