How can I get Pub 2003 to stop creating text boxes when "pasting"?

I am new to MS Publisher 2003 though I have a lot of experience with Pub
2000. I do a newsletter for a fraternal organization each month and it is all
done in Publisher.

I get a lot of the articles I publish from members via e-mail. In the past,
all I had to do was copy the text from the e-mail and paste it into my
publication, change the font and its size and I was done. Today was my first
"real" experience with Pub 2003 on a new computer. After I copied an e-mail
to put in the newsletter I attempted to 'paste' it. What I got was a lot of
extra text boxes. In fact, everywhere there was extra space in the e-mail a
new text box was created in the publication.

The only quick cure I could find on the fly was to "forward" the e-mail and
close up all of the text like one big paragraph and copy it again. When I
pasted that into the publication it had no extra text boxes. Now all I have
to do is space it all over again. That works but it's an awful lot of trouble
and work.

Is there a setting I missed somewhere in Pub 2003 that I can change to stop
the creation of text boxes where they aren't needed or wanted?

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated as I'm on a schedule here and
as usual, behind. TIA


Mike

Chuck
Mon Jul 24 20:27:02 CDT 2006


"indutch" <indutch@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am new to MS Publisher 2003 though I have a lot of experience with Pub
> 2000. I do a newsletter for a fraternal organization each month and it is
> all
> done in Publisher.
>
> I get a lot of the articles I publish from members via e-mail. In the
> past,
> all I had to do was copy the text from the e-mail and paste it into my
> publication, change the font and its size and I was done. Today was my
> first
> "real" experience with Pub 2003 on a new computer. After I copied an
> e-mail
> to put in the newsletter I attempted to 'paste' it. What I got was a lot
> of
> extra text boxes. In fact, everywhere there was extra space in the e-mail
> a
> new text box was created in the publication.
>
> The only quick cure I could find on the fly was to "forward" the e-mail
> and
> close up all of the text like one big paragraph and copy it again. When I
> pasted that into the publication it had no extra text boxes. Now all I
> have
> to do is space it all over again. That works but it's an awful lot of
> trouble
> and work.
>
> Is there a setting I missed somewhere in Pub 2003 that I can change to
> stop
> the creation of text boxes where they aren't needed or wanted?
>
> Any and all help will be greatly appreciated as I'm on a schedule here and
> as usual, behind. TIA
>
>
> Mike

Mike,

1, Choose Paste Special from the Edit drop down menu.
2. OR, open Notepad and paste. The select all and paste into Publisher.

JoAnn
Mon Jul 24 21:13:30 CDT 2006

I use the Paste Special command. I just wish it was on the right-click menu.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]




"Chuck Davis" <newsgroup at anthemwebs dot com> wrote in message
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>
> "indutch" <indutch@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FD0E5C02-D167-41B9-98C2-782B2FCD640E@microsoft.com...
>>I am new to MS Publisher 2003 though I have a lot of experience with Pub
>> 2000. I do a newsletter for a fraternal organization each month and it is
>> all
>> done in Publisher.
>>
>> I get a lot of the articles I publish from members via e-mail. In the
>> past,
>> all I had to do was copy the text from the e-mail and paste it into my
>> publication, change the font and its size and I was done. Today was my
>> first
>> "real" experience with Pub 2003 on a new computer. After I copied an
>> e-mail
>> to put in the newsletter I attempted to 'paste' it. What I got was a lot
>> of
>> extra text boxes. In fact, everywhere there was extra space in the e-mail
>> a
>> new text box was created in the publication.
>>
>> The only quick cure I could find on the fly was to "forward" the e-mail
>> and
>> close up all of the text like one big paragraph and copy it again. When I
>> pasted that into the publication it had no extra text boxes. Now all I
>> have
>> to do is space it all over again. That works but it's an awful lot of
>> trouble
>> and work.
>>
>> Is there a setting I missed somewhere in Pub 2003 that I can change to
>> stop
>> the creation of text boxes where they aren't needed or wanted?
>>
>> Any and all help will be greatly appreciated as I'm on a schedule here
>> and
>> as usual, behind. TIA
>>
>>
>> Mike
>
> Mike,
>
> 1, Choose Paste Special from the Edit drop down menu.
> 2. OR, open Notepad and paste. The select all and paste into Publisher.
>
>
>
>

Mary
Tue Jul 25 03:04:16 CDT 2006

There is a small utility that sits in your systray, once you copy your text,
click the PureText icon, it will automatically change your copied text into
plain text.
http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
It is free.
If you copy/paste a plain text email you won't get the tables.

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"indutch" <indutch@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FD0E5C02-D167-41B9-98C2-782B2FCD640E@microsoft.com...
>I am new to MS Publisher 2003 though I have a lot of experience with Pub
> 2000. I do a newsletter for a fraternal organization each month and it is all
> done in Publisher.
>
> I get a lot of the articles I publish from members via e-mail. In the past,
> all I had to do was copy the text from the e-mail and paste it into my
> publication, change the font and its size and I was done. Today was my first
> "real" experience with Pub 2003 on a new computer. After I copied an e-mail
> to put in the newsletter I attempted to 'paste' it. What I got was a lot of
> extra text boxes. In fact, everywhere there was extra space in the e-mail a
> new text box was created in the publication.
>
> The only quick cure I could find on the fly was to "forward" the e-mail and
> close up all of the text like one big paragraph and copy it again. When I
> pasted that into the publication it had no extra text boxes. Now all I have
> to do is space it all over again. That works but it's an awful lot of trouble
> and work.
>
> Is there a setting I missed somewhere in Pub 2003 that I can change to stop
> the creation of text boxes where they aren't needed or wanted?
>
> Any and all help will be greatly appreciated as I'm on a schedule here and
> as usual, behind. TIA
>
>
> Mike