How can I prevent PowerPoint from using the text formatting of pasted text?
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Or you can try enabling Smart Tags (if not already enabled).  Then, when you see the Smart Tag after you paste, you can click the Tag and choose "Stop auto formatting" (or something similar).
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I would suggest using a plain text editor, such as notepad (win), textedit (mac), or an open-source plain text editor.
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You would be better off copying and pasting your work.  Remember to do chunks at a time otherwise your font will be unreadable (small).\n\nAlternatively choose insert > object > from file (browse to file)\n\nand your text will automatically appear on one slide.  Again separate the text onto different slides.
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Try going to the Tools menu and choosing Options.  Under the View tab, in the Formatting Marks section, make sure that there are no boxes checked and click OK.
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A simple solution is to just copy and paste it to Word, Notepad, etc.
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In the print dialogue box go to OPI and make sure low resolution is not checked
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A quick way of getting rid of all formatting is to use a middle stage.\n\nCopy as usual by highlighting the text and either right click, 'copy' or <ctrl> + <c> and then paste into notepad.\n\nThen copy that and past into whatever else you want.\n\nThis generally gets rid of all formatting codes without worrying overmuch.
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If you just select edit and look for cut, copy and paste, they will not be there.  You have to highlight some text or image first.
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Instead of pressing Paste or CTRL+V, go to edit then Paste Special. Then choose Formatted Text (or Unformatted text) and then click OK.\n\n:)\n\nOr when you press CTRL+V to paste, you will see a little square icon of a Briefcase and a document at the bottom right of what you just pasted. Click that, then click Keep Text Only. (If you dont see the Briefcase, click Tools, then Options. Click the Edit tab, then tick the "Show Paste Options button")
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If your making a PowerPoint you can copy and paste from sites that allow it. Like if you where doing a PowerPoint on monkeys you can go to your monkey website, and right click on the picture you want, and then go back to PowerPoint, and right click on the slide you want it on then click paste. Hope this helps and lots of luck. I say good luck because I know from personal experience that figuring out how to work PowerPoint is difficult.
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yes in the save as type box select rich text format ... .rtf
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Use Microsoft Word\nIn the OPEN dialogue window choose "Recover text from any file" under FILES OF TYPE. This will open any text in the Publisher document but the formatting will be lost.
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Open up MS Word and bring up the document you want to transfer to Powerpoint.\nOpen up Powerpoint and insert a Text Box in the slide.\nGo back to MS Word. \n\nA.\nClick on "Edit" then "Select All" (if you want all the text in the document to appear in Powerpoint).\nThen click on "Edit" again, then "Copy".\n\n   -or---\n\nB.\nIf you need to copy only a portion of the document over to Powerpoint:\nClick on "Edit", then -highlight- the text you want to transfer to Powerpoint.\nThen right-click over the highlighted area and click on "Copy".\n\nAfterwards ...\nGo back to Powerpoint, right-click on any part -inside-\n the Text Box, then click on "Paste". The text from Word should appear in the Powerpoint Text Box.\n\nIf this does not work ...\nPull up Powerpoint.\nThen go back to MS Word. Minimize the screen, so that it is smaller than the Powerpoint screen, and you can see some part of the Text Box in Powerpoint.\n\nDo procedures "A" or "B".\nThen position your cursor over the highlighted area and "DRAG" it (by clicking on the LEFT mouse key -without- releasing it) until the cursor is over any part -INSIDE- the Text Box.\nRelease the Left Mouse Key.\nYour MS Word text should now appear inside the Powerpoint Text Box.\nGood Luck!
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try cutting or copying and pasteing!
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I have the same problem so instead I use the buttons at the top of the compose window for cut and paste.  They seem to work well.  \n\nAlso you could disable the enhanced features in the options menu so it will go back to the normal cut and paste style.  In Yahoo mail go to Options-> General Preferences -> Composing E-mails and select the "Compose messages as plain text" Mode.   \n\nThat worked for me.
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Here is a nice free software utility that will do this for you without having to mess about with the clipboard:\n\nhttp://www.download.com/ScreenGrabber/3000-2194_4-10389800.html?tag=pub
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for a free way to do it, you could copy/paste the text into something that will export as a pdf (like OpenOffice) and just edit it there. The pdf reader that comes with windows wont edit text. *sigh*