Whenever I copy and paste text containing manual line breaks into a
Word 9 document the manual breaks are replaced by paragraph marks. This
happens even if I copy an address from a letter and paste it into a
Word envelope document. It also happens no matter whether I choose to
paste styled or unformatted text. And of course it happens when pasting
from an external source, eg a SimpleText document.

I'm sure that I am copying all the text including the following
paragraph mark. So what is the secret? TIA.

Stan

If by Word 9 you mean Word 2001/X, the copy/paste is done in HTML format.
Since the Mac uses a single character for a paragraph mark, Line breaks are
automatically converted to paragraph marks.

The PC uses two characters for a paragraph mark so Word can tell the
difference.

Sorry


This responds to microsoft.public.mac.office.word on Tue, 08 Jul 2003
20:46:31 +0000, Stan The Man <macho[at]mac.com>:

> Whenever I copy and paste text containing manual line breaks into a
> Word 9 document the manual breaks are replaced by paragraph marks. This
> happens even if I copy an address from a letter and paste it into a
> Word envelope document. It also happens no matter whether I choose to
> paste styled or unformatted text. And of course it happens when pasting
> from an external source, eg a SimpleText document.
>
> I'm sure that I am copying all the text including the following
> paragraph mark. So what is the secret? TIA.
>
> Stan

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john[at]mcghie-information.com.au

It's Word 9.01 (Office 2001) running in Os 9.1. Thanks for the
explanation. I can call this a bug, then.

Stan

In article <4u2ngvo4n37j9gdj8oc3n50pmatla07s7g[at]4ax.com>, John McGhie
[MVP - Word] <john[at]mcghie-information.com.au> wrote:

>If by Word 9 you mean Word 2001/X, the copy/paste is done in HTML format.
>Since the Mac uses a single character for a paragraph mark, Line breaks are
>automatically converted to paragraph marks.
>
>The PC uses two characters for a paragraph mark so Word can tell the
>difference.
>
>Sorry
>
>
>This responds to microsoft.public.mac.office.word on Tue, 08 Jul 2003
>20:46:31 +0000, Stan The Man <macho[at]mac.com>:
>
>> Whenever I copy and paste text containing manual line breaks into a
>> Word 9 document the manual breaks are replaced by paragraph marks. This
>> happens even if I copy an address from a letter and paste it into a
>> Word envelope document. It also happens no matter whether I choose to
>> paste styled or unformatted text. And of course it happens when pasting
>> from an external source, eg a SimpleText document.
>>
>> I'm sure that I am copying all the text including the following
>> paragraph mark. So what is the secret? TIA.