How can I copy from a website?

[Guest]

I'm a student. So when I'm doing research papers, I usually cut and paste
parts of papers and cite them. For some reason, I can't do that anymore.
When I try to do this, Word freezes and I have to do an End Task just to get
out of it. What is wrong?

 

[lostinspace]

----- Original Message -----
From: "jmcn106" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 10:55 PM
Subject: How can I copy from a website?

I'm a student. So when I'm doing research papers, I usually cut and paste
parts of papers and cite them. For some reason, I can't do that anymore.
When I try to do this, Word freezes and I have to do an End Task just to
get
out of it. What is wrong?

Could be "a thousand and one" issues.
Why utilize Word for something it was not designed for?

If you desire to save the web page? Open it wit an internet browser?

If you desire to copy text from a web page?
Past it into a text editor (such as Notepad, FIRST) then copy from the text
editor to Word.

 

[Guest]

----- Original Message -----
From: "jmcn106" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 10:55 PM
Subject: How can I copy from a website?



Could be "a thousand and one" issues.
Why utilize Word for something it was not designed for?

If you desire to save the web page? Open it wit an internet browser?

If you desire to copy text from a web page?
Past it into a text editor (such as Notepad, FIRST) then copy from the text
editor to Word.

 

[lostinspace]

"But if I could do it before then what changed? I haven't installed anything
since then. Help please"

I have no idea what changed (nor likely will anybody else).

We're not using your computer, your software, we aren't aware of the history
of your computer or even what website your attempting to copy from (some
websites have a anti-copy in place that deters many people).

 

[Guest]

----- Original Message -----
From: "jmcn106" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 10:55 PM
Subject: How can I copy from a website?



Could be "a thousand and one" issues.
Why utilize Word for something it was not designed for?

If you desire to save the web page? Open it wit an internet browser?

If you desire to copy text from a web page?
Past it into a text editor (such as Notepad, FIRST) then copy from the text
editor to Word.


Yeah. They might have changed the website. Thanks for your help.

 

[Opinicus]

I'm a student. So when I'm doing research papers, I
usually cut and paste
parts of papers and cite them. For some reason, I can't
do that anymore.
When I try to do this, Word freezes and I have to do an
End Task just to get
out of it. What is wrong?

Depends on the website. When you copy text (control-c) from
a web page and paste it into Word (control-v) you're also
copying a ton of HTML code and possibly also Java scripts
and other stuff that you can't see. Word tries its best to
render all of this and occasionally (frequently) gets
wrapped up in its underwear in the the attempt. This is the
reason for the freezing that your seeing. If you wait *long*
enough, Word will usually regain consciousness--but not
always.

One solution, as someone else said, is to paste into Notepad
first then copy that text and paste it into Word. In this
way you get rid of all the background code.

The method I use is a macro that pastes unformatted into
Word. I've associated it with control-shift-V:

<quote>
Sub PasteUnformatted()
'
' PasteUnformatted Macro
' Control shift V pastes the clipboard without formatting
Selection.PasteSpecial Link:=False, DataType:=wdPasteText,
Placement:= _
wdInLine, DisplayAsIcon:=False
End Sub
</quote>

HTH.

 

[Amedee Van Gasse]

In <[email protected]>, lostinspace told us an
interesting story. My reply to this story is at the bottom of this
message.

"But if I could do it before then what changed? I haven't installed
anything since then. Help please"

I have no idea what changed (nor likely will anybody else).

We're not using your computer, your software, we aren't aware of the
history of your computer or even what website your attempting to copy
from (some websites have a anti-copy in place that deters many
people).

All websites are copyrighted material, and you're not allowed to copy
anything from them without permission, /unless explicitly specified/.
Short quotes are allowed if you mention your sources.

 

[lostinspace]

"All websites are copyrighted material, and you're not allowed to copy
anything from them without permission, /unless explicitly specified/.
Short quotes are allowed if you mention your sources."

Most anything maybe copied for personal use.

The copyright infringement is when the copied materials are passed on, free
or otherwise.

 

[Amedee Van Gasse]

In <[email protected]>, lostinspace told us
an interesting story. My reply to this story is at the bottom of this
message.

"All websites are copyrighted material, and you're not allowed to copy
anything from them without permission, /unless explicitly specified/.
Short quotes are allowed if you mention your sources."

Most anything maybe copied for personal use.

The copyright infringement is when the copied materials are passed
on, free or otherwise.

I implied that. But now that I reread the original question, it *is*
for personal use. Oops. Excuse me.