Copy/Past WITHOUT Bookmark Errors?
Doug
Thanks Doug Robbings (Word MVP), but your suggestion did not work.
ANYBODY PLEASE! The Internet is a great reference tool, but not if I have to retype every quote in a proposal or recommendation report because MS-Word thinks everyone in the world wants to link to the Internet. Executives reading these reports are reading them ON PAPER! not on their PCs.
I need to be able to quote from sources (online magazines and news articles) in my Word documents. Thus Copy/Paste is the obvious choice. This results in all html Links being copied as links and treated as Bookmarks by MS-Word. All I want is for Word to print them as text and not attempt to connect to the link pages and print them. I just need the text.
When Word attempts to print the text, it instead prints "ERROR! Bookmark not defined." For example:
"The latest HP Photo RET-II is a remarkable..."
is actually printed as:
"The latest ERROR! Bookmark not defined is a remarkable..."
So you can see my problem. In articles where many hypertext links exist, I have to retype them all and that (Microsoft are you listening) is a BIG waste of MY time. I work in the real world, the world that still depends on PAPER documents.
Now, Doug Robbins (Word MVP) tried to offer a solution, and it is shown below in his reply to me. I tried it, but unfortunately it didn't work. I also attempted to edit bookmarks, but the text objects identified as bookmarks when printing, are not identified as bookmarks in the edit| Bookmarks function. (Microsoft, who messed up that one?)
Perhaps I should look in the Internet Explorer 4 forum for help, since that is the display source of the data I am copying. Then again.. Microsoft, maybe I should just invest in Netscape and Word Perfect.
Sincerely,
Doug Knoerr
PC/Consulting
Doug Robbins <doug_r...@email.msn.com> wrote in article <e6IaGx6...@uppssnewspub05.moswest.msn.net>...
Hi Doug,
I am not sure if this works, but after pasting the item. try selecting it and press F9 while holding down the Control and the Shift keys. That unlinks fields and may do what you after.
Regards,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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Terry Farrell
well, there is a setting under Tools, AutoCorrect in both the AutoFormat as
You Type and AutoFormat tabs about converting Network and Internet links as
Hyperlinks. If you deselect both these options, does this stop the
Hyplerlinks being copied in as hyperlinks?
Terry - Word MVP
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Rod Vernen
>
>ANYBODY PLEASE! The Internet is a great reference tool, but not if I have
>to retype every quote in a proposal or recommendation report because
>MS-Word thinks everyone in the world wants to link to the Internet.
>Executives reading these reports are reading them ON PAPER! not on their
>PCs.
>
>I need to be able to quote from sources (online magazines and news
>articles) in my Word documents. Thus Copy/Paste is the obvious choice. This
>results in all html Links being copied as links and treated as Bookmarks by
>MS-Word. All I want is for Word to print them as text and not attempt to
>connect to the link pages and print them. I just need the text.
Try Terry's suggestion first, then, if that doesn't work, you can do what I
did to get around the problem. Either save the web page as TEXT and import
the saved text into WinWord, or Cut the material you want from the web page,
then Paste it into Notepad (where it automatically becomes text), then
re-select it (I use the same instance of Notepad, and Select All - I just
remember to Cut the text from Notepad after each paste, instead of Copying
it), and paste it into Word. Word gets the links as text this way (at least
WinWord97 does).
It's a bit cumbersome, but it works. I didn't explore Terry's method, as I
needed some doc's to have the links, and other not to. I hope this works
for you.
Rod
Jonathan West
Go to the link in my signature. My program Multilinker includes a macro to
remove all hyperlinks from a Word Document. You can download a free trial
version.
regards
Jonathan West - Word MVP
Multilinker - Automated generation of hyperlinks in Word
Conversion to PDF & HTML
http://www.multilinker.com
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Doug wrote in message <01bdb7fb$b3a2b0e0$49c1...@pdknoerr.athenet.net>...
Hank Roberts
Instead of using Explorer to look at the pages, use Lynx (text only). If
you can use Explorer and View Source, then copy and paste from the text
screen, that should accomplis the same thing -- giving you ASCII, the way
God and Gutenberg intended us to read things.
I had to solve this when a corporate librarian tried to hand me one of the
files you describe, that downloaded with just the cross-reference code (and
when copied and pasted from the onscreen view or saved to disk, also came
in as codes. So they wanted me to type from the printout (no, they didn't
think of PrintScreen and OCR, thank goodness.....).
So I got a modem, pulled my PC off the network, found an outside line,
dialed up my personal UNIX shell account on my local ISP, opened Lynx,
went to the same site, and mailed the page to myself (as ASCII of course)
and also copied and pasted from the Lynx screen (also ASCII of course).
I imagine, perhaps, you can View Source using the fancy browsers and look
for the actual text and copy and paste that -- but I don't know for sure,
haven't tried it.
> So you can see my problem. In articles where many hypertext links exist,
>I have to retype them all and that (Microsoft are you listening) is a BIG
>waste of MY time. I work in the real world, the world that still depends on
>PAPER documents.
Now that the secret is out, watch for Microsoft to make it impossible, if
it even is now, to copy from the View Source screen -- think of it as copy
protection for text, they want to sell you the simplest things in fancy packing.
I should warn you, however, that ANY TIME you copy text from ANY SOURCE
and paste it into a Microsoft Office app, WATCH OUT. Watch for weird font names
to show up in the Fonts directory of Office; watch in /tools/options/compatibility
for new strange settings; click Word's Font Substitution button and if you see
"Font Times New Roman Bold not found, substituting Times New Roman Bold" -- or
any other nonexistent font being mentioned and used as its own substitution --
you've likely got a corrupted Word doc that can't be repaired and will eventually
fall apart. None of the recommended fixes will purge the demons after your
Microsoft app has been contaminated by any outside file whatsoever. It didn't
blow our files up right away, it took some weeks and more copying and pasting
before they failed, so you can probably print -- but don't save and revise.
Word builds "house of cards" documents -- fancy, but short-lived.
I've had this using text OCR'd into Word 6 and 97; copied in from Word 6 cut and
paste (oh, Lord, when there's one paragraph in which the _trailing_ return has
the formatting, from Word 6, in a doc where the paragraphs created IN Word97
have their formatting in the _preceding_ carriage return, then you do some
paste formatting overlying them both, then redefine a style that overlaps some
part of that area, then copy half of THAT into a new document ....instant
tar-pit). It happens with imported files (Word Perfect, DEC VAX text pages...).
So -- you CAN do what you want to. But remember, Microsoft products
do not really understand that there is any world outside of Microsoft products;
all the import and conversion stuff is Mighty Oz, but the little man remains
behind the curtain and is really the limiting factor.
Gary Hunt
Doug wrote in message <01bdb7fb$b3a2b0e0$49c1...@pdknoerr.athenet.net>...
Thanks Doug Robbings (Word MVP), but your suggestion did not work.