I used to use a Mac running Word 6 and am now using Windows XP w/MS Word 2000. When I copy from a web site (or HTML formatted email) and paste into a new Word document, I get “frames” (I think that’s what they’re called) around the text. This happens both if I CTRL-A, CTRL-C the web page or the email, BUT also even when I just highlight text (i.e., when I try NOT to grab all the formatting, boxes, etc. in the copying process). When I copied from the web into Word 6 on the Mac, I got the colors of the fonts intact, paragraph spacing, etc., but did NOT get the frames, which often can be a huge interference, take up more memory, make it harder to work with text, etc.
What I would like to know how to do is to get rid of the frames, either in the pasting process, or, if I HAVE to go through the longer paste while Word 2000 sets up the frames, etc., how I can then remove the frames (the boxes around text, etc.), and just leave the plain text in its original colors. I’ve done my best to locate an option to get rid of the “frames” (I keep putting that in quotes because I’m not sure I’m using the right term), but can’t find any way to do so. Basically, I just want to be able to grab text that I want, preserve the colors it’s in, and lose all the HTML formatting, boxes, web icons for sound files, etc.
Advice on a solution will be *hugely* appreciated.
Thanks,
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