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    Posted: December 18 2008 at 13:05
Lately, I noticed that if I write something on Word (that's Microsoft Word - Vista Edition) and copy/paste it as a post here, the whole text gets hyperlinked - and I can't do anything about it.

Any tips on how to avoid the text being hyperlinked - cause I'm preparing a big post, written with Word?



To double-check the issue:

< ="-" ="text/; =utf-8">< name="ProgId" ="Word.">< name="Generator" ="Microsoft Word 12">< name="Originator" ="Microsoft Word 12">

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Yep. Problem's there.

Thanks in advance.


Edited by Ricochet - December 18 2008 at 13:06
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Points: 67433 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 18 2008 at 13:47
That's strange. Can you copy it to Notepad?
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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 18 2008 at 13:49
Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

That's strange. Can you copy it to Notepad?


Yeah, but I would totally lose the format of my text, Notepad allows just one font, one text size, one color, etc. Not at all an alternative for me.
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Points: 13244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 18 2008 at 14:20
Hmmm. Strange are Microsoft's ways... but why write a post in Word anyway, the forums are not build for that (in terms of layout and so on)?
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Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Hmmm. Strange are Microsoft's ways... but why write a post in Word anyway, the forums are not build for that (in terms of layout and so on)?


I'm writing a text, not a post. I'm posting the text. Wink
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Points: 13244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2008 at 01:53
Yeah, yeah, but the same statement applies. Tongue
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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2008 at 02:46
Of course it does, if you'd be willing to write 19 pages using PA's text box. I'm not, but perhaps you'd be - since you're on a sabbatical anyway. Tongue
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Have you updated to the latest version via Windows Update, Rico?
 
Have you run Diagnostics?
 
Have you checked that no boxes are checked that shouldn't be in Options?
 
Have you tried highlighting all the text and then checking the Hyperlink tab to see whether you can undo it?
 
Alternatively, hyperlink the full text and see if it reverses when you post to the forum.
 
I'm not an expert but this is what I would do first.
 
 
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I'm not an expert on this, but it sounds like you are formatting the text in Word as html in some way. Are you saving the text as a .doc file?
 
 
Looking at the link shown at the foot of the page, it seems to be something to do with the colour scheme.
 
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Originally posted by progmetalhead progmetalhead wrote:

Have you updated to the latest version via Windows Update, Rico? yep, always do.
 
Have you run Diagnostics? no, and I'm not sure what's that, tbh. Embarrassed
 
Have you checked that no boxes are checked that shouldn't be in Options? such as? will check though.
 
Have you tried highlighting all the text and then checking the Hyperlink tab to see whether you can undo it?
 
Alternatively, hyperlink the full text and see if it reverses when you post to the forum.
 
I'm not an expert but this is what I would do first.
 
 


Thanks for the suggestions.
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Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

I'm not an expert on this, but it sounds like you are formatting the text in Word as html in some way. Are you saving the text as a .doc file?
 
 
Looking at the link shown at the foot of the page, it seems to be something to do with the colour scheme.
 


I am saving it as a .doc (or docx, since it's Vista version). I don't format the type of text (except if I do it automatically and don't know about it).

The font of the text used as an example was default black, didn't modify the colour scheme in any way.
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What version of word are you using?
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Originally posted by progmetalhead progmetalhead wrote:

What version of word are you using?


Microsoft Office Word 2007.
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Ok, goto the Office start button (top left)

In the drop down you will see Word Options, open this and you will see a window with an option "resources".

Click this and you will have the option to run diagnostics.
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Sorry, another thought.

Have you tried saving the document as (*.txt) instead of (*.docx)

This will be just in plain text then.

You can change this in word options too in the save tab.
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Saved text as plain text (.txt).
Copy/pasting the text:

< ="-" ="text/; =utf-8">< name="ProgId" ="Word.">< name="Generator" ="Microsoft Word 12">< name="Originator" ="Microsoft Word 12">

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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2008 at 04:02
What just happened?! I tested a plain text, it was added to the topic's first post, and I can't see the 15 replies (though, from outside the topic, everything seems ok).


Edited by Ricochet - December 19 2008 at 04:04
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Oh. Copy-pasting a text saved as plain text obviously didn't work.
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Edit: worked for me Rico. I am also using Word 2007.
 
Highlight the text and right click on the text. What hyperlink options do you have available?


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Once I saved the text as .txt, it automatically opens with Notepad. From there, the text is copy/pasted without problems, but I would use the format (font, colors, sizes - all reduced to mono).

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Yep, it works from Notepad, presumably Wordpad too, but neither can support the type of formats I've made to the original text, written with Word.

From Word I can't definitely not copy/paste the text (saved as .txt) without having the problem.


Edited by Ricochet - December 19 2008 at 04:26
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