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:
- Block and copy the section from WordPerfect as you normally would.
- 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.)
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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