Comments on: Changing the font of text copied to clipboard from web browser

Question: Changing the font of text copied to clipboard from web browser

lockse — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:22:14 -0800

When I copy text from my web browser and paste it into Word, I get an awful awful awful Lucinda font. It's too big and i hate it all over. But how do I change it?

By: cass

cass — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:25:58 -0800

Paste it into Notepad first, then copy and paste from Notepad into MSWord.

By: visual mechanic

visual mechanic — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:27:06 -0800

When you choose to paste in word, choose "Paste Special" from the edit toolbar, and pick "unformatted text."

By: Ness

Ness — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:29:40 -0800

more on paste special including how to macro it and add a keyboard shortcut.

By: Not in my backyard

Not in my backyard — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:48:38 -0800

I'm a big fan of cass's method, but paste special works well too.

By: arco

arco — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:52:00 -0800

I love the little freeware program PureText, which solves this problem nicely. If I'm on a computer where PureText is not installed, I use Paste Special.

By: lockse

lockse — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:01:59 -0800

sorry, maybe i didn't phrase well enough--I understand paste special but I also would just like to change the default font that the text is assigned in Word (currently Lucinda Grande) so that i can just paste unspecially away without dealing with this crap font. any ideas on how to do that?

By: special-k

special-k — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:20:10 -0800

Click Format > Font

Change it to the desired font settings and click the "default" button on the bottom left. That will change your default font.

By: Doctor Barnett

Doctor Barnett — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:25:42 -0800

In the spirit of knowing thine enemy, it's Lucida (no N).

By: lockse

lockse — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:36:52 -0800

ok now i feel stupid. annoyance resolved!

By: Lucinda

Lucinda — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:49:43 -0800

In the spirit of knowing thine enemy, it's Lucida (no N).
posted by Doctor Barnett at 9:25 AM PST on October 24

Yeah. Lucinda is an entirely different ball of wax.

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:57:38 -0800

If you copy from HTML, Word will paste in in using the default formatting for HTML. Often this means keeping the source formatting but not always. You can change the settings by opening a blank document and looking at the styles; change your default styles here and then save these styles to your normal document template (this requires you to check a small box in the styles and formatting pop-up that says "Save to document template" or similar.)

By: JudgeBork

JudgeBork — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:41:04 -0800

I'm seconding PureText.

By: purplevelvet

purplevelvet — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:44:47 -0800

If you have Firefox, my favorite method is a handy little extension called Copy Plain Text -- all it does is add the option to copy as plain text into my context menu so there's only one extra click involved.