Microsoft KB Archive/224624

= WD2000: Selection Runs Together After Pasting as Unformatted Text =

Article ID: 224624

Article Last Modified on 11/22/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q224624



SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Word 2000, when you copy a selection from a table cell that looks similar to the following:

apple

banana

orange

(where indicates a carriage return), and then you paste the selection as unformatted text, it loses the carriage returns and looks like this:

applebananaorange

NOTE: This functionality is different from Microsoft Word 97 for Windows.



CAUSE
This functionality was implemented to improve how the information is pasted into a Microsoft Excel file.



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, paste the selection by doing one of the following:
 * Click Paste on the Edit menu.

-or-
 * Click Paste Special on the Edit menu and select Formatted Text.

Keywords: kbnofix kbprb KB224624

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