Excel 2003 & cutting/pasting text from web pages

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Steve

When I cut text from a web page, Excel then tries to connect again to that
web page to setup some sort of auto-update option.

This is very annoying, especially if all I want to do is copy & paste the
text/numerical contents from an (https) web page onto a sheet - I can see
this since the desktop firewall I'm using (Sygate) keeps complaining about
Excel attempting to connect to the web.....

* How do I disable that feature - the copy operation should be over & done
with after Ctrl+C

THIS Feature is not a "productivity" enhancement...



Steve
 
Hi,

I don't think that answers my question, but thanks anyway for the attempt.

When you copy-paste from a web page using Excel 2003...


1. Copy from web page
Should copy contents onto clipboard

2. Paste to excel
There should be no need to re-retrieve the web page data again (it's
already on the clipboard)

I see at least 3 attempts being made, during which EXCEL completely
hangs. (Attempts, because I've
barr'd Excel via my PC firewall, from accessing the web)


Steve
 
How about using a 'paste special' to paste only the text into you
spreadsheet? Keyboard shortcut is Alt --> E --> S. (Long way is Edi
menu, Paste Special). Select text
 
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