Clean, Unformatted Pasting to MS Word (Was: Working with large documents in Word)

["Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>]

Looks like a good tool. In a similar vein, I have a Paste Special macro
I wrote for Word and mapped to ALT+P.

Sub Paster()
'
' Pastes unformatted text
' Macro recorded 07/03/04 by Jim Pinkham
'
    Selection.PasteSpecial Link:=False, DataType:=wdPasteText,
Placement:= _
        wdInLine, DisplayAsIcon:=False
End Sub

If I have something that needs to be cleaned up of errant spaces and the
like, I use the free utility e-cleaner (http://ecleaner.tripod.com/)
first and then do the Paste Special from that application. 

FWIW, I have one other simple macro that can restore some sanity to a
melting pot file. In OP's case, it might be best to run it in the source
file (or a copy of the source file) and then do the Paste Special to the
destination file:

Sub ElNormalizer()
'
' ElNormalizer Macro
' Macro recorded 06/02/04 by Jim Pinkham
'
    Selection.WholeStory
    Selection.Font.Reset
    Selection.ParagraphFormat.Reset
    Selection.Range.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles(wdStyleNormal)
End Sub

These simple steps work well for me. YMMV.
Jim

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Subject: RE: Working with large documents in Word

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Allison
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> Subject: Re: Working with large documents in Word
> 
> ... My preferred way to add new text has been to copy it from its 
> source file, paste into Notebook, then select and copy the Notebook 
> text into my Word file...
> 

I know something better than Notepad: http://stevemiller.net/PureText/

PureText is equivalent to the Notepad method -- just easier, faster, and
almost foolproof. My only connection to this freeware is that I'm a
satisfied customer.
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