Comments on: Reference Question of the Week – 1/4/09 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2009/01/10/reference-question-of-the-week-1409/ or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Thu, 23 May 2013 18:19:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2009/01/10/reference-question-of-the-week-1409/#comment-798 Brian Herzog Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:10:07 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=524#comment-798 @Charlie: Thanks for the tip (you learn something new everyday) – I use Paste Special all the time in Excel, but it never occurred to me that it would be in Word too (I’m more a right-click person than a menu bar person).

However, after experimenting a bit, Paste Special looks like it has the same drawback (in this case) as the Copy Plain Text Firefox add-on I mentioned: they both exclude images. The patron wants to copy the images, and he said he wanted all the text formatting, too (bold, font sizes, etc) – everything but the tables, basically.

I guess I can’t fault Microsoft for not preparing for every conceivable desire – but patrons do.

]]> By: Charlie http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2009/01/10/reference-question-of-the-week-1409/#comment-797 Charlie Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:43:28 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=524#comment-797 Would going to “Paste Special” in Word and selecting “Unformatted Text” work too?

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