We’ve all done it — there’s already a WordPerfect document that you need some text out of (a letter addressee, a section out of a brief, whatever), so you decide to cut-and-paste from WordPerfect into your current Word document.
And the formatting in your Word document goes totally … WAAAAAAHHHH!
Here’s how to avoid that:
Word 2002-2003
- Select and copy the section from WordPerfect as you normally would (either with your mouse or keyboard).
- Switch over to Word, then instead of hitting CNTL-V to paste, go to Edit, Paste Special, then choose Unformatted Text and click OK.
(Your list may show many more choices, depending on where you’re copying text from.)
Word 2007-2010
- Select and copy the section from WordPerfect as you normally would (either with your mouse or keyboard).
- On the Home tab, click Paste, then click the Text Only icon shown below:
- You can also click Paste Special as shown above to get a dialog box similar to the one shown in the Word 2002-2003 instructions above:
Keep in mind that, if you any special formatting turned on for any of the originating text (such as italicized case names), you’ll need to manually restore that in the resulting document.
But it’s a small price to pay sometimes for not having to diagnose formatting issues that pasting one word processing format into another can cause!
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