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can't paste into word?!?!

sk3pt1c

sk3pt1c

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Nov 29, 2005
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i copied some text off a web site and i can't seem to paste it into word whereas i can paste it into text editor. i've got office 2004 by the way. any ideas?
i just realised and did not like it at all
 
Okay, it's letting me paste it into Word X but it comes up with mainly blank characters because Word doesn't have the right font. It pastes normally in TextEdit for me because TextEdit can see that font. I'm not sure of a workaround though. :eek:
 
^^ I get exactly the same. If you paste into TextEdit and then into Word, you also get non-characters, but slightly different non-characters than if you post directly from the website. Weird. :confused:

Edit: It could be the encoding used - TextEdit (at least on my system) uses Unicode UTF-8, whereas Word defaults to Western European. I've tried the method set out in the Word Help file, but I don't seem to have all the options they specify, so I can't tell if it works. Basically go Preferences>General>Web Options>Encoding.
 
tried that,still doesn't work
i also added greek fonts to the 'fonts' folder in office and still i can't paste
major compatibility problem batman!!!

it's pretty lame since i can type in greek or any other language but i can't paste greek text into word 2004. ????

does anyone know a way around this?
 
Another odd thing - when it is pasted into Word and you can see all the non-characters and you have spell check turned on, you obviously get a load of the red squiggle spelling mistakes.

If you switch the language of the document to Greek, these all disappear, meaning that Word is recognising the text as proper Greek words - it simply can't display the characters.
 
This sometimes happens to me when pasting from the web to word. I just wait a little then try again and it works. This might be a different issue to what you're having but it sounds similar.
 
kiwi-in-uk do you have anything specially changed in your settings or something?

this is so bizarre!!!

still doesn't work on mine
 
Sorry about the slow reply (was celebrating my 50th on 24th).
Yes - I used Safari to test the copy/paste, with no special settings.
Is it working now?
 
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