Open a Word Document.
Select the first few words of a bulleted paragraph (but NOT the bullet
or tab!).
In a second document, paste that text into a table cell using "PasteTextOnly" (a built-in command in Word for which you can assign a custom shortcut).
Watch Word decide that you actually wanted both the bullet character
(now an empty character box because the Symbol font's "•" is not the
same glyph in Times New Roman) AND the tab.
AND that it should reformat the table column widths for no apparent reason.
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 2:45:45 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:
Open a Word Document.
Select the first few words of a bulleted paragraph (but NOT the bullet
or tab!).
In a second document, paste that text into a table cell using
"PasteTextOnly" (a built-in command in Word for which you can assign a
custom shortcut).
Watch Word decide that you actually wanted both the bullet character
(now an empty character box because the Symbol font's "•" is not the
same glyph in Times New Roman) AND the tab.
file-options-advanced-clear keep bullets and numbers when pasting text with keep text only option.
don't know about your empty character box
AND that it should reformat the table column widths for no apparent reason.
autofit is on by default. if you don't like it, select your table, layout-cell size, turn off autofit
Open a Word Document.
Select the first few words of a bulleted paragraph (but NOT the bullet
or tab!).
In a second document, paste that text into a table cell using
"PasteTextOnly" (a built-in command in Word for which you can assign a
custom shortcut).
Watch Word decide that you actually wanted both the bullet character
(now an empty character box because the Symbol font's "•" is not the
same glyph in Times New Roman) AND the tab.
AND that it should reformat the table column widths for no apparent reason.
Hell, just set up a paragraph with a right tab stop at the left margin,
then try to enter a tab character at the beginning of a new line...
...and watch Word decide you really wanted to change the indents of your paragraph!
Open a Word Document.
Select the first few words of a bulleted paragraph (but NOT the bullet
or tab!).
In a second document, paste that text into a table cell using "PasteTextOnly" (a built-in command in Word for which you can assign a custom shortcut).
Watch Word decide that you actually wanted both the bullet charac
(now an empty character box because the Symbol font's "•" is not the
same glyph in Times New Roman) AND the tab.
AND that it should reformat the table column widths for no apparent reason.
Hell, just set up a paragraph with a right tab stop at the left margin,
then try to enter a tab character at the beginning of a new line...
...and watch Word decide you really wanted to change the indents of your paragraph!
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 2:45:45 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:
Open a Word Document.
Select the first few words of a bulleted paragraph (but NOT the
bullet or tab!).
In a second document, paste that text into a table cell using
"PasteTextOnly" (a built-in command in Word for which you can
assign a custom shortcut).
Watch Word decide that you actually wanted both the bullet charac
(now an empty character box because the Symbol font's "•" is not
the same glyph in Times New Roman) AND the tab.
AND that it should reformat the table column widths for no apparent
reason.
Hell, just set up a paragraph with a right tab stop at the left
margin, then try to enter a tab character at the beginning of a new
line...
...and watch Word decide you really wanted to change the indents of
your paragraph!
Ignorance is no excuse. You are not just ignorant, but also stupid.
Ignorance can be fixed with education and/or experience. Stupid is
not trying something right there in front of you that can work and
then griping about what you tried not working rather than looking for
a solution.
What you did carries the paragraph formatting with it. Always has.
Try going to the bottom of the Paste drop down, select Paste Special,
then Unformatted Text or Unformatted Unicode Text. Or, right-click
and select Paste Special then unformatted paste. Anyone with any Word experience at all knows how that works.
Sheesh, try harder next time.
On 2021-11-10 5:22 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 2:45:45 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:
Open a Word Document.
Select the first few words of a bulleted paragraph (but NOT the
bullet or tab!).
In a second document, paste that text into a table cell using
"PasteTextOnly" (a built-in command in Word for which you can
assign a custom shortcut).
Watch Word decide that you actually wanted both the bullet charac
(now an empty character box because the Symbol font's "•" is not
the same glyph in Times New Roman) AND the tab.
AND that it should reformat the table column widths for no apparent
reason.
Hell, just set up a paragraph with a right tab stop at the left
margin, then try to enter a tab character at the beginning of a new
line...
...and watch Word decide you really wanted to change the indents of
your paragraph!
Ignorance is no excuse. You are not just ignorant, but also stupid. Ignorance can be fixed with education and/or experience. Stupid isIn what way am I ignorant, idiot?
not trying something right there in front of you that can work and
then griping about what you tried not working rather than looking for
a solution.
What you did carries the paragraph formatting with it. Always has.Sorry, but you're demonstrating YOUR idiocy. That is why there is a
"Keep text only" option.
Or were you ignorant of the options:
Keep Source Formatting
Use Destination Theme
Match Destination Formatting
Keep Text Only
What would the point of those options, if the formatting was carried
with it "Always", idiot?
Try going to the bottom of the Paste drop down, select Paste Special,I know of those... ...and pasting unformatted text makes precisely the
then Unformatted Text or Unformatted Unicode Text. Or, right-click
and select Paste Special then unformatted paste. Anyone with any Word experience at all knows how that works.
same error.
Would you like a movie of it?
Sheesh, try harder next time.
You first, idiot.
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 2:45:45 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:rather than looking for a solution.
Open a Word Document.
Select the first few words of a bulleted paragraph (but NOT the bullet
or tab!).
In a second document, paste that text into a table cell using
"PasteTextOnly" (a built-in command in Word for which you can assign a
custom shortcut).
Watch Word decide that you actually wanted both the bullet charac
(now an empty character box because the Symbol font's "•" is not the
same glyph in Times New Roman) AND the tab.
AND that it should reformat the table column widths for no apparent reason. >>
Hell, just set up a paragraph with a right tab stop at the left margin,
then try to enter a tab character at the beginning of a new line...
...and watch Word decide you really wanted to change the indents of your
paragraph!
Ignorance is no excuse. You are not just ignorant, but also stupid. Ignorance can be fixed with education and/or experience. Stupid is not trying something right there in front of you that can work and then griping about what you tried not working
What you did carries the paragraph formatting with it. Always has. Try going to the bottom of the Paste drop down, select Paste Special, then Unformatted Text or Unformatted Unicode Text. Or, right-click and select Paste Special then unformatted paste.Anyone with any Word experience at all knows how that works.
Sheesh, try harder next time.
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 8:53:55 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:
On 2021-11-10 5:22 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 2:45:45 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:In what way am I ignorant, idiot?
Open a Word Document.
Select the first few words of a bulleted paragraph (but NOT the
bullet or tab!).
In a second document, paste that text into a table cell using
"PasteTextOnly" (a built-in command in Word for which you can
assign a custom shortcut).
Watch Word decide that you actually wanted both the bullet charac
(now an empty character box because the Symbol font's "•" is not
the same glyph in Times New Roman) AND the tab.
AND that it should reformat the table column widths for no apparent
reason.
Hell, just set up a paragraph with a right tab stop at the left
margin, then try to enter a tab character at the beginning of a new
line...
...and watch Word decide you really wanted to change the indents of
your paragraph!
Ignorance is no excuse. You are not just ignorant, but also stupid.
Ignorance can be fixed with education and/or experience. Stupid is
not trying something right there in front of you that can work and
then griping about what you tried not working rather than looking for
a solution.
Sorry, but you're demonstrating YOUR idiocy. That is why there is a
What you did carries the paragraph formatting with it. Always has.
"Keep text only" option.
Or were you ignorant of the options:
Keep Source Formatting
Use Destination Theme
Match Destination Formatting
Keep Text Only
What would the point of those options, if the formatting was carried
with it "Always", idiot?
Try going to the bottom of the Paste drop down, select Paste Special,I know of those... ...and pasting unformatted text makes precisely the
then Unformatted Text or Unformatted Unicode Text. Or, right-click
and select Paste Special then unformatted paste. Anyone with any Word
experience at all knows how that works.
same error.
Would you like a movie of it?
You first, idiot.
Sheesh, try harder next time.
Turns out that paste special unformatted works if you select in the middle of a line but not if you select from the start of the line.
Try this:
Select the entire formatted line to the last character but not the paragraph delimiter. Command C to copy and Command V to paste in the new document. Same result in both Mac and Windows versions.
I tried harder. It worked.
On 2021-11-10 6:24 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 8:53:55 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:
On 2021-11-10 5:22 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 2:45:45 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:In what way am I ignorant, idiot?
Open a Word Document.
Select the first few words of a bulleted paragraph (but NOT the
bullet or tab!).
In a second document, paste that text into a table cell using
"PasteTextOnly" (a built-in command in Word for which you can
assign a custom shortcut).
Watch Word decide that you actually wanted both the bullet charac
(now an empty character box because the Symbol font's "•" is not
the same glyph in Times New Roman) AND the tab.
AND that it should reformat the table column widths for no apparent >>>> reason.
Hell, just set up a paragraph with a right tab stop at the left
margin, then try to enter a tab character at the beginning of a new >>>> line...
...and watch Word decide you really wanted to change the indents of >>>> your paragraph!
Ignorance is no excuse. You are not just ignorant, but also stupid.
Ignorance can be fixed with education and/or experience. Stupid is
not trying something right there in front of you that can work and
then griping about what you tried not working rather than looking for >>> a solution.
Sorry, but you're demonstrating YOUR idiocy. That is why there is a
What you did carries the paragraph formatting with it. Always has.
"Keep text only" option.
Or were you ignorant of the options:
Keep Source Formatting
Use Destination Theme
Match Destination Formatting
Keep Text Only
What would the point of those options, if the formatting was carried
with it "Always", idiot?
Try going to the bottom of the Paste drop down, select Paste Special, >>> then Unformatted Text or Unformatted Unicode Text. Or, right-clickI know of those... ...and pasting unformatted text makes precisely the
and select Paste Special then unformatted paste. Anyone with any Word >>> experience at all knows how that works.
same error.
Would you like a movie of it?
You first, idiot.
Sheesh, try harder next time.
Turns out that paste special unformatted works if you select in the middle of a line but not if you select from the start of the line.
Try this:
Select the entire formatted line to the last character but not the paragraph delimiter. Command C to copy and Command V to paste in the new document. Same result in both Mac and Windows versions.
I tried harder. It worked.
You "tried harder"...
...after you realized I was right all along...
...Idiot.
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 9:55:49 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:
On 2021-11-10 6:24 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 8:53:55 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:You "tried harder"...
On 2021-11-10 5:22 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 2:45:45 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:In what way am I ignorant, idiot?
Open a Word Document.
Select the first few words of a bulleted paragraph (but NOT the
bullet or tab!).
In a second document, paste that text into a table cell using
"PasteTextOnly" (a built-in command in Word for which you can
assign a custom shortcut).
Watch Word decide that you actually wanted both the bullet charac
(now an empty character box because the Symbol font's "•" is not >>>>>> the same glyph in Times New Roman) AND the tab.
AND that it should reformat the table column widths for no apparent >>>>>> reason.
Hell, just set up a paragraph with a right tab stop at the left
margin, then try to enter a tab character at the beginning of a new >>>>>> line...
...and watch Word decide you really wanted to change the indents of >>>>>> your paragraph!
Ignorance is no excuse. You are not just ignorant, but also stupid.
Ignorance can be fixed with education and/or experience. Stupid is
not trying something right there in front of you that can work and
then griping about what you tried not working rather than looking for >>>>> a solution.
Sorry, but you're demonstrating YOUR idiocy. That is why there is a
What you did carries the paragraph formatting with it. Always has.
"Keep text only" option.
Or were you ignorant of the options:
Keep Source Formatting
Use Destination Theme
Match Destination Formatting
Keep Text Only
What would the point of those options, if the formatting was carried
with it "Always", idiot?
Try going to the bottom of the Paste drop down, select Paste Special, >>>>> then Unformatted Text or Unformatted Unicode Text. Or, right-clickI know of those... ...and pasting unformatted text makes precisely the >>>> same error.
and select Paste Special then unformatted paste. Anyone with any Word >>>>> experience at all knows how that works.
Would you like a movie of it?
You first, idiot.
Sheesh, try harder next time.
Turns out that paste special unformatted works if you select in the middle of a line but not if you select from the start of the line.
Try this:
Select the entire formatted line to the last character but not the paragraph delimiter. Command C to copy and Command V to paste in the new document. Same result in both Mac and Windows versions.
I tried harder. It worked.
...after you realized I was right all along...
...Idiot.
Try Control C then Control V to paste.
On Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 5:28:18 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:
On 2021-11-11 2:24 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 9:55:49 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:1. It's COMMAND-C and COMMAND-V on a Mac.
On 2021-11-10 6:24 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 8:53:55 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:You "tried harder"...
On 2021-11-10 5:22 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 2:45:45 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote: >>>>>>>> Open a Word Document.In what way am I ignorant, idiot?
Select the first few words of a bulleted paragraph (but NOT the >>>>>>>> bullet or tab!).
In a second document, paste that text into a table cell using
"PasteTextOnly" (a built-in command in Word for which you can
assign a custom shortcut).
Watch Word decide that you actually wanted both the bullet charac >>>>>>>> (now an empty character box because the Symbol font's "•" is not >>>>>>>> the same glyph in Times New Roman) AND the tab.
AND that it should reformat the table column widths for no apparent >>>>>>>> reason.
Hell, just set up a paragraph with a right tab stop at the left >>>>>>>> margin, then try to enter a tab character at the beginning of a new >>>>>>>> line...
...and watch Word decide you really wanted to change the indents of >>>>>>>> your paragraph!
Ignorance is no excuse. You are not just ignorant, but also stupid. >>>>>>> Ignorance can be fixed with education and/or experience. Stupid is >>>>>>> not trying something right there in front of you that can work and >>>>>>> then griping about what you tried not working rather than looking for >>>>>>> a solution.
What you did carries the paragraph formatting with it. Always has. >>>>>> Sorry, but you're demonstrating YOUR idiocy. That is why there is a >>>>>> "Keep text only" option.
Or were you ignorant of the options:
Keep Source Formatting
Use Destination Theme
Match Destination Formatting
Keep Text Only
What would the point of those options, if the formatting was carried >>>>>> with it "Always", idiot?
Try going to the bottom of the Paste drop down, select Paste Special, >>>>>>> then Unformatted Text or Unformatted Unicode Text. Or, right-click >>>>>>> and select Paste Special then unformatted paste. Anyone with any Word >>>>>>> experience at all knows how that works.I know of those... ...and pasting unformatted text makes precisely the >>>>>> same error.
Would you like a movie of it?
You first, idiot.
Sheesh, try harder next time.
Turns out that paste special unformatted works if you select in the middle of a line but not if you select from the start of the line.
Try this:
Select the entire formatted line to the last character but not the paragraph delimiter. Command C to copy and Command V to paste in the new document. Same result in both Mac and Windows versions.
I tried harder. It worked.
...after you realized I was right all along...
...Idiot.
Try Control C then Control V to paste.
And I have tried PRECISELY what you suggested.
In fact, I have selected lines from after the tab of the bullet-tab to
begin a line to somewhere in the middle, and then used "Paste
Special-Unformatted Text" to insert that text else where...
...and it FAILS, Idiot.
Do you want to see a movie of it, Idiot?
It does work. My clip:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RQoQrU36nVAEAU_-NoeYLwGu8v-wanUr/view?usp=sharing
Lied again Alan. Don't know how, but you lied, again. It works as long as it's an excerpt.
Admittedly it should also work for the entire line.
On 2021-11-11 2:24 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 9:55:49 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:
On 2021-11-10 6:24 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 8:53:55 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:You "tried harder"...
On 2021-11-10 5:22 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 2:45:45 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote: >>>>>> Open a Word Document.In what way am I ignorant, idiot?
Select the first few words of a bulleted paragraph (but NOT the >>>>>> bullet or tab!).
In a second document, paste that text into a table cell using
"PasteTextOnly" (a built-in command in Word for which you can
assign a custom shortcut).
Watch Word decide that you actually wanted both the bullet charac >>>>>> (now an empty character box because the Symbol font's "•" is not >>>>>> the same glyph in Times New Roman) AND the tab.
AND that it should reformat the table column widths for no apparent >>>>>> reason.
Hell, just set up a paragraph with a right tab stop at the left >>>>>> margin, then try to enter a tab character at the beginning of a new >>>>>> line...
...and watch Word decide you really wanted to change the indents of >>>>>> your paragraph!
Ignorance is no excuse. You are not just ignorant, but also stupid. >>>>> Ignorance can be fixed with education and/or experience. Stupid is >>>>> not trying something right there in front of you that can work and >>>>> then griping about what you tried not working rather than looking for >>>>> a solution.
What you did carries the paragraph formatting with it. Always has. >>>> Sorry, but you're demonstrating YOUR idiocy. That is why there is a >>>> "Keep text only" option.
Or were you ignorant of the options:
Keep Source Formatting
Use Destination Theme
Match Destination Formatting
Keep Text Only
What would the point of those options, if the formatting was carried >>>> with it "Always", idiot?
Try going to the bottom of the Paste drop down, select Paste Special, >>>>> then Unformatted Text or Unformatted Unicode Text. Or, right-click >>>>> and select Paste Special then unformatted paste. Anyone with any Word >>>>> experience at all knows how that works.I know of those... ...and pasting unformatted text makes precisely the >>>> same error.
Would you like a movie of it?
You first, idiot.
Sheesh, try harder next time.
Turns out that paste special unformatted works if you select in the middle of a line but not if you select from the start of the line.
Try this:
Select the entire formatted line to the last character but not the paragraph delimiter. Command C to copy and Command V to paste in the new document. Same result in both Mac and Windows versions.
I tried harder. It worked.
...after you realized I was right all along...
...Idiot.
Try Control C then Control V to paste.
1. It's COMMAND-C and COMMAND-V on a Mac.
And I have tried PRECISELY what you suggested.
In fact, I have selected lines from after the tab of the bullet-tab to
begin a line to somewhere in the middle, and then used "Paste Special-Unformatted Text" to insert that text else where...
...and it FAILS, Idiot.
Do you want to see a movie of it, Idiot?
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