Differences between type and copy paste

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arthemis

Hello,
What are the differences between a .doc file written by typing and one
written by copy paste from another .doc file or from notepad? I am
talking about all data created in these files.
Is there any chance to make them look the same?
Hope you can help me.
 
Arthemis,

Essentially, there is no difference.

If you bring in text from another file, you have the option of bringing in
formatting, but as far as the document is concerned, appear to be the same
whether you typed in the text and formatted it yourself or copied the text
from elsewhere.

Doug
 
Arthemis,

Essentially, there is no difference.

If you bring in text from another file, you have the option of bringing in
formatting, but as far as the document is concerned, appear to be the same
whether you typed in the text and formatted it yourself or copied the text
from elsewhere.

Doug

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Office System Solutions Specialist
3Sharphttp://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/





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Thank you very much for the quick answer.
But I think I've asked the wrong question.

I'm not asking about the text itself.
I was asking about the structure of the file, all those metadata,
hidden data stored in the files. Is it written somewhere there that a
document is creating with copy-paste?

I have to evaluate some projects and I would like to know if there's
any way I can tell if they are created using copy-paste (whole
document, or part of it).
 
arthemis said:
I'm not asking about the text itself.
I was asking about the structure of the file, all those metadata,
hidden data stored in the files. Is it written somewhere there that a
document is creating with copy-paste?

I have to evaluate some projects and I would like to know if there's
any way I can tell if they are created using copy-paste (whole
document, or part of it).
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You can view the metadata with the script editor - ALT+SHIFT+F11. Whether
that will give you the answers you seek is another question. Pasting as
unformatted text would eliminate any metadata from the inserted text so I
can't see how useful this be- unless it is you who is attempting the
plagiarism.

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My web site www.gmayor.com

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Thanks a lot.



You can view the metadata with the script editor - ALT+SHIFT+F11. Whether
that will give you the answers you seek is another question. Pasting as
unformatted text would eliminate any metadata from the inserted text so I
can't see how useful this be- unless it is you who is attempting the
plagiarism.

--
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web sitewww.gmayor.com
Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org
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As a former English teacher, I can tell you that there are many, many ways of
determining if something was copied from another source. Checking file
meta-data is just one method. For example, I would google at least three
phrases from each paper, both in and out of quotation marks. (My favorite was
when students would buy "custom written" papers from websites that were just
selling them widely available plagiarized material.) It was also very helpful
when other instructors kept copies of papers from previous years.

But, to answer your question directly, it is certainly possible to make a
Word document that was made simply by cutting and pasting other material look
exactly like an original composition in terms of the data on the file. So, if
you suspect plagiarism and can find no indicators on the file, keep
investigating by other means.

Doug
 
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Your advices are really useful. I
just thought that maybe it's a way to let Word Document to tell you
right from the start: "Hello, the text was inserted by copy-paste"...
well, I guess not.
Although in the tests I've made with WSE (and for this I have to thank
to Graham Mayor, I've never heard about it before, it wasn't even
installed, now it is and I'm very much obliged for this) I found some
hints that can tell me something about this: typing time, uses of
spelling and grammar and some others.

So thank you again. To all of you.

I'm for the first time in a Google Group and I'm deeply impressed by
the great job all of you are doing here (before asking I've searched
long enough the archive and I didn't find any single question without
proper answer).

Arthemis
 
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