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I sometimes type information on my work computer in email and then send it to my home computer (where I have web access). Quite often, when I do a copy and paste the formatting gets all messed up when I try to post it here. Any suggestions on how to edit the text so that it will format here correctly?
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David Ignatius DTBrown@aol.com
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Originally posted by DTBrown:
I sometimes type information on my work computer in email and then send it to my home computer (where I have web access). Quite often, when I do a copy and paste the formatting gets all messed up when I try to post it here. Any suggestions on how to edit the text so that it will format here correctly? Hmm I think the problem here is one of RTF versus Plain Text - but which is which I know not. You really need the Gurus to sort that one out for you - it should be easy - just a matter of knowing which Format to use As a Mac user I have this problem with some folk sending me attachments to e-mails- as result I tend to use plain text. For me the other common problem is the Mac Programmes[ like Appleworks] versus Microsoft . Anhelyna
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Dave, I usually save everything as .txt since that is fairly universal for both WP and Word and I have not had many problems importing or saving portions of discussions on the Forum. You might have to take out some spaces, hard returns, etc. to get everything to fit and look right. But I am no expert on this by any means and in general not real computer savvy.
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Thanks for the replies. I'm not computer savvy and I've tried the suggestions and I'm still having problems. I'll keep working on it!
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If you are emailing your text there is probably a word-wrap setting in the email program. I would try to disable that if possible, the "carriage return" marks may be carried over into the next program that may be wrapping to a different number of characters per line.
But I would rather type the material into a Word document and ermail it as an attachment, if you have the same program at the other end. The email program won't mess with the contents of the attachment. See if you have wordpad on your computer, it's a very simple word processing program with almost no features for small documents. You might be able to email that if you don't have Word.
Actually, I don't know enough to anything less than dangerous!
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Michael,
I think you're right about the word wrap feature being the problem. I'm not able to disable it nor can I send attached files from my work computer.
Anyone have a suggestion if there's anything I can do now?
Many thanks!
David Ignatius DTBrown@aol.com
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Dave,
Try using Wordpad for all copying and pasting. Wordpad is found in Start, Programs, Accessories. Once you copy and paste into Wordpad, then highlight it and copy and paste it here. Use Wordpad as an intermediarry.
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Thanks for the tips...I still couldn't get it to work but was able to do some editing to get the text up online. I'll try to see if I can attach files to email next time.
David Ignatius DTBrown@aol.com
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