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Old July 3rd 04, 12:47 AM
Lehar V. Osvald
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Default Can paste unformatted text from IE to Wordpad by default?

I use internet cafes a lot to do research, and am always copying and
pasting stuff from the web browser to Wordpad. When I use Internet
Explorer, if I copy a story and try to paste it into Wordpad, I have
to use "paste special" to get unformatted text, which is what I want.
When you are doing this constantly it becomes a huge pain to have to
do this, and I want to be able to just use the Paste command.

Now I dislike Internet Explorer, because it's so slow, so I've
recently tried to use other browsers. I've noticed that when I do the
same thing in Opera or Mozilla, if I select text from a web page I can
paste it into WOrdpad with just a paste command, and it will paste as
unformatted text by default. Great, but now I'm having problems with
these programs, mainly that I can't get them to run from my USB Pen
Drive, and the Internet Cafes don't have these programs (they prefer
Explorer because it's so slow, it makes people spend more time and
money in the cafe ;-)

If there's no way to get Wordpad to default paste as unformatted text,
I'm wondering if there's some other freeware Wordpad replacement
program that will allow me to Paste as unformatted by default. Does
anyone have any solutions? Thanks.
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Old July 4th 04, 01:34 AM
glee
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Default Can paste unformatted text from IE to Wordpad by default?

Try the Firefox web browser:
http://texturizer.net/firefox/

How to Run Firefox from a USB Memory Stick
http://texturizer.net/firefox/tips.html#oth_usb

I have seen others mention the problem you describe, and the only solution I have
seen is to use Paste Special in Wordpad, when it occurs.

There are numerous other text editors you can use instead.....EditPad, The GUN
Notepad Replacement....do a Google search.
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Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
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"Lehar V. Osvald" wrote in message
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I use internet cafes a lot to do research, and am always copying and
pasting stuff from the web browser to Wordpad. When I use Internet
Explorer, if I copy a story and try to paste it into Wordpad, I have
to use "paste special" to get unformatted text, which is what I want.
When you are doing this constantly it becomes a huge pain to have to
do this, and I want to be able to just use the Paste command.

Now I dislike Internet Explorer, because it's so slow, so I've
recently tried to use other browsers. I've noticed that when I do the
same thing in Opera or Mozilla, if I select text from a web page I can
paste it into WOrdpad with just a paste command, and it will paste as
unformatted text by default. Great, but now I'm having problems with
these programs, mainly that I can't get them to run from my USB Pen
Drive, and the Internet Cafes don't have these programs (they prefer
Explorer because it's so slow, it makes people spend more time and
money in the cafe ;-)

If there's no way to get Wordpad to default paste as unformatted text,
I'm wondering if there's some other freeware Wordpad replacement
program that will allow me to Paste as unformatted by default. Does
anyone have any solutions? Thanks.


 




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