Re: Query: Copying text into XyWrite from Word (Windows XP) and similar

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Why would you have to use another editor to save in .txt format?  Why not just copy the text you want from the Word document into another Word document and then save that document as a text document using the process I described and then open up in XyWrite?



Granted, there are a few steps, but it is easier than opening up yet a third editor.



//Avi

Avram Sacks









Patrick Cox 

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04/28/2005 02:55 PM

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I've been struggling with this problem since I switched from

Win 98 to XP on one machine. In some matters, XyWrite's

functionality has improved -- such as restoring the usefulness

of the mkdir command.



But copying from the Windows clipboard is a serious problem.

Unlike pasting in 98, the function appears to work one character

at a time and is painfully slow. I've tried selecting the quick copy

box in the windows dos program properties menu, but it makes

little if any difference.



It doesn't matter, by the way, if I'm copying from Word or

from another source. The problem seems to be that "paste"

functions differently.



Moreover, certain characters have odd effects. For example, any

incidence of a copied "at" sing, @, in the copied text will send the

cursor back up to the top of the current page, disordering pasted

text from that point forward.



I can, of course, save in .txt format using another editor,

such as notepad, and then open in XyWrite -- but it is really

inconvenient.





PC





-----Original Message-----

From: George Scithers 

Sent: Apr 28, 2005 3:19 PM

To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx

Subject: Re: Query: Copying text into XyWrite from Word (Windows XP) and similar



I've had some success by importing a Word file into Ventura, and

then exporting a text file from or an .rtf file from Ventura.





----- Original Message -----

From: "William Warner" 

To: 

Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 11:59 AM

Subject: Query: Copying text into XyWrite from Word (Windows XP)

and similar





>

> Is there a way to copy text created in a Word file into a

> XyWrite file?  At

> the moment I have files in Word (Windows XP) which I created

> using

> voice-recognition software.  I have my XyWrite 3.5 running in

> DOS.  Most

> always when I try to copy Word material into XyWrite -- using

> copy and

> paste -- various bits of coding (e.g., for italics) "confuse"

> the recipient

> (the XyWrite file), and I end up with all the words but in a

> jumble, out of

> order, etc.

>

> Any solutions?  I have tried saving Word files in all sorts of

> different

> formats without any luck to date.

>

>

>