Re: MS Word Styles Question

Subject: Re: MS Word Styles Question
From: "Carol Franger" <cfranger -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "DeLoach, Amelia (Jersey City)" <adeloach -at- checkfree -dot- com>, "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:12:52 -0800

I highly recommend the free utility PureText. With it, you can paste
text unformatted with a simple keyboard shortcut. Plus, it makes a
satisfying CLONK sound.

http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/

Carol

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:56 AM, DeLoach, Amelia (Jersey City)
<adeloach -at- checkfree -dot- com> wrote:
> Thanks to all who responded. Useful suggestions.
>
> Our training group has developed a guide in Word and are wrestling with Style issues. (They were forewarned.) Methinks cost justifying another FrameMaker seat just became a bit easier.
>
>
>
> From: Deborah Hemstreet [mailto:dvora -at- tech-challenged -dot- com]
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 12:48 PM
> To: DeLoach, Amelia (Jersey City)
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: MS Word Styles Question
>
> Hi Amelia,
>
> The easiest way to do this, if a small amount of text, is to take all of the text, without the paragraph marker. If there is character formatting, simply select the text and press Ctrl+Space to go to the default formatting.
>
> Hope this is helpful.
>
> Deborah
>
> DeLoach, Amelia (Jersey City) wrote:
>
> When copying and pasting text from one Word document to another, is there a way to prevent the styles from the original document from entering the style list of the destination document?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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References:
MS Word Styles Question: From: DeLoach, Amelia (Jersey City)
Re: MS Word Styles Question: From: Deborah Hemstreet
RE: MS Word Styles Question: From: DeLoach, Amelia (Jersey City)

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