Changing the font of text copied to clipboard from web browser
October 24, 2006 8:22 AM   Subscribe

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?
posted by lockse to Computers & Internet (13 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Paste it into Notepad first, then copy and paste from Notepad into MSWord.
posted by cass at 8:25 AM on October 24, 2006


When you choose to paste in word, choose "Paste Special" from the edit toolbar, and pick "unformatted text."
posted by visual mechanic at 8:27 AM on October 24, 2006


Best answer: more on paste special including how to macro it and add a keyboard shortcut.
posted by Ness at 8:29 AM on October 24, 2006


I'm a big fan of cass's method, but paste special works well too.
posted by Not in my backyard at 8:48 AM on October 24, 2006


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.
posted by arco at 8:52 AM on October 24, 2006


Response by poster: 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?
posted by lockse at 9:01 AM on October 24, 2006


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.
posted by special-k at 9:20 AM on October 24, 2006


In the spirit of knowing thine enemy, it's Lucida (no N).
posted by Doctor Barnett at 9:25 AM on October 24, 2006


Response by poster: ok now i feel stupid. annoyance resolved!
posted by lockse at 9:36 AM on October 24, 2006


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.
posted by Lucinda at 9:49 AM on October 24, 2006


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.)
posted by caution live frogs at 9:57 AM on October 24, 2006


I'm seconding PureText.
posted by JudgeBork at 8:41 PM on October 24, 2006


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.
posted by purplevelvet at 7:44 AM on October 25, 2006


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