> -----Original Message----- > From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf > Of Bradley Ferguson > Sent: Friday, 8 April 2005 3:02 AM > To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. > Subject: Re: [OT][AD] MS Word, was Ideas for books on PIC > > > On Apr 7, 2005 11:17 AM, S=F8ren Knudsen wrote: > > Am I the only one who finds that many of the things you guys > have mentioned Word is able to do, it does very poor? - I mean > shure you have styles and all that. > > > > But why for example, is it, that everytime you paste som text > into the darn thing, it has copied the layout with it too. And > this both for paste's from Word and from fx a browser. > > Same deal with Excel and the way around that is to Paste Special, > which gives you a multitude of options, one of which, if you're lucky, > is unformatted text. It's funny how they turned such a common > function as Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert into something that takes 4 mouse > clicks. Because if it didn't you'd complain about that ;-). Word does Paste Special too, but not off the right-click menu. Stupid. It's so when pasting Excel data, you can paste as text, a link or as graphics. Actually, Paste Special in Word does suck when embedding files. But that tends to be dumb thing to do anyway. Tony --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist