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    Having trouble pasting web page text into word documents

    what's the best way to past text from web pages such as new articles into word documents?

    what I'm doing is selecting text and then copying it but when I try to paste it into a word document it doesn't always work.
    Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

    Look, I just don't anymore, okay?
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    Can you give an example, like what sites you're having trouble with?
    The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.

    The Weighted Companion Cube is cheating on you, that slut.

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    • #3
      like newspaper articles - I mark the text, copy it with a right click but when try and paste to my word doc, it freezes up and I just get an hour glass
      Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

      Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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      • #4
        Erm, you mean like photocopies of newsprint articles? I'm confused by what you mean.
        The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.

        The Weighted Companion Cube is cheating on you, that slut.

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        • #5
          no I want to paste the news articles into word documents so I can save them
          Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

          Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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          • #6


            Ok, let's try it this way: Give me specific sites where you're having this problem, I'll try to reproduce it, and we'll see if I can help you.
            The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.

            The Weighted Companion Cube is cheating on you, that slut.

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            • #7
              okay say I just want the text of this article in a word document. How do I do that?

              Yonhap News Agency
              http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20051003/610000000020051003122228E2.html
              Yonhap news articles produced by building a network covering domestic supplies in various newspapers, broadcasting and government departments, major institutions, major corporations, media ,K-pop, K-wave, Hallyu, Korean Wave, Korean pop, Korean pop culture, Korean culture, Korean idol, Korean movies, Internet media and international agreements of the Republic of Korea.
              Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

              Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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              • #8
                Edit--Paste Special--Unformatted Text.

                Good luck!
                I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                • #9
                  Using Firefox, I selected the text (left-click-and-drag), right-click > copy, and pasted into a MS Word document just fine. Just to be sure, I repeated the process but used Internet Explorer instead. I'm not sure why it's giving you trouble. Hell, I even got the picture to paste both times.
                  The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.

                  The Weighted Companion Cube is cheating on you, that slut.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by DanS
                    Edit--Paste Special--Unformatted Text.
                    There was some quick DanS'ing there.
                    (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
                    (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
                    (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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                    • #11
                      Dan, my country thanks you
                      Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

                      Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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                      • #12
                        That still doesn't explain what the problem was, but if it works it works and that's all that matters.
                        The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.

                        The Weighted Companion Cube is cheating on you, that slut.

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                        • #13
                          the problem was either word wasn't reading the text or the text was coming with lots of web crap attached
                          Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

                          Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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                          • #14
                            You could try isolating the problem by trying to paste the contents of the clipboard into something else, say, Notepad.
                            (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
                            (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
                            (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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                            • #15
                              maybe but Dan's solution works perfectly thanks
                              Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

                              Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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