Converting outline to plain text in Word

[LauraB]

I have a lengthy outline in Word that I need to transfer to an electronic
government form. When I copy and paste, the outline formatting gets
horrifically screwed up. Evidently it has it's own formatting codes embedded
that interfere. I'd like to convert my original document to plain text (i.e.
not in an outline) so I can transfer. How do I do this?

 

[Don]

I have a lengthy outline in Word that I need to transfer to an
electronic government form. When I copy and paste, the outline
formatting gets horrifically screwed up. Evidently it has it's own
formatting codes embedded that interfere. I'd like to convert my
original document to plain text (i.e. not in an outline) so I can
transfer. How do I do this?

That because your copying and pasting from MS Word and into MS Interent
Explorer.

Copy and paste from Word to NotePad (which comes with all versions of
Windows) and then from Notepad to the Web page.

 

[LauraB]

The form I'm using isn't online, it's just another word doc with embedded
codes. I don't have notepad. Is there a command that undoes the application
of the outline format?

 

[Don]

The form I'm using isn't online, it's just another word doc with
embedded codes. I don't have notepad. Is there a command that undoes
the application of the outline format?

All Windows OS since Win 95 (that includes Windows 2000) came with NotePad.
Start
Run
type in
notepade.exe

 

[Cindy M.]

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I have a lengthy outline in Word that I need to transfer to an electronic
government form. When I copy and paste, the outline formatting gets
horrifically screwed up. Evidently it has it's own formatting codes embedded
that interfere. I'd like to convert my original document to plain text (i.e.
not in an outline) so I can transfer. How do I do this?

It's always difficult to understand exactly what a problem is when the
difficulty is described in general terms, such as "horrifically screwed up".
Can you be more precise about what's not good about the result?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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