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[Morris Krok essence@xxxxxxxx]

from Morris

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  I have just received Bass's tips from PCworld. I have selected the
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Steve Bass
PCWorld.com

Hey, are you passing these newsletters along to your friends? That's
cool, but make sure you give them this URL so that they can get their
own:
http://www.pcworld.com/resource/newsletters/index.asp?sub_source=NL_XB

And if you missed the earlier newsletters, they're available here,
along with other Home Office columns:
http://www.pcworld.com/features/locations.asp?loc=48

Dig this: Want to see an utterly amazing image from space? Take a look
at NASA's "Earthlights." It's a 540KB JPEG and may take a couple of
minutes to download, but I promise, you'll gasp when you see it.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg

I often grab text or the URL from a Web page and copy it into a Word
document. If you do an ordinary Paste (Ctrl-V), you'll not only get
the text but you'll also get the fonts and the formatting junk from
the Web page.

I was chatting with PC World columnist George Campbell (well if you
must know, I was kvetching) and he handed me an easy workaround. In
Word, click Edit, Paste Special, and click on 'Unformatted text.'
You'll paste text with no formatting at all. This trick is VERY cool
and without it, doing this column would be a horror for me.

If you have the skills, create a macro for the steps and assign it to
a keystroke. Get George's step-by-step details in "Isn't That Special?
Paste Without Formatting."
http://www.pcworld.com/hereshow/article.asp?aid=34769