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the stinking cut and paste from word wonks up every bit of the formatting and makes me look dumb, unless I PRINT OUT THE DOCUMENTS AND TYPE THEM IN.
Try cutting and pasting into Notepad and then from Notepad to Blackboard. Won't make Blackboard suck less, but it should strip the formatting out as much as possible.
Try cutting and pasting into Notepad and then from Notepad to Blackboard. Won't make Blackboard suck less, but it should strip the formatting out as much as possible.
Good idea! I will try it, thanks!
Try cutting and pasting into Notepad and then from Notepad to Blackboard. Won't make Blackboard suck less, but it should strip the formatting out as much as possible.
That's a trick I use fairly often. I wish there was a "cut as plain text" or "paste as plain text" option.
For the love of God, why isn't paste as plain text the default? It annoys the fuck out of me.
Today did not begin auspiciously.
In Word there is, through Paste Special. Also, before copying from Word, you can choose Clear Formatting from the Style window.
In Word 2003, there's a "Keep Text Only" dropdown from the clipboard icon.
I actually reprogram a shortcut key in Word for Paste Special. (Usually Ctrl-Q, I think.)
I do what Dana does. It's even more annoying in Excel, because if you do too much fiddling between cutting in Excel and pasting in same, your clipboard empties.
Not sure of the rationale behind that.
I think I need to book a one-way ticket to Timbuktu. Or maybe not Timbuktu since Mali isn't a vacation destination I've ever had in mind, but someplace remote where I can insist that there's no wireless.