In word there is the ability to Edit > Paste Special > Unformatted Text, and I'd like to do this by default.
I've created a Macro that reads:
Selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart
Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText
Which seems remove the original fonts something, but it doesn't remove bold, italic,:
List items / bullet points
Or hyperlinks
What do I need to add to my Macro to remove all formatting?
Hemphta,
If you truly want your default to be pasting w/plain text you just need to set that preference in the File->Options->Advanced dialog.
How to Force Microsoft Word to Paste Always Without Formatting 2022
Select text from some web page with various font sizes (to test how
formatting will be removed later).
Open Word and select – Tools > Macro > Record Macro… – and name the macro for example – PasteNoFormatting
Edit > Paste Special… > Unformatted Text > OK – see how formatting from the web page is removed.
Tools > Macro > Stop Recording
Tools > Customize Keyboard … – select – Categories: > Macros – select your own macro – PasteNoFormatting – and click in the empty box called – Press new keyboard shortcut – and press the keycombination you want like – Command - V – or – Ctrl - V –
click – OK – to save your changes.
Now Microsoft Word will always
automatically paste text content without unnecessary formatting simply with
keycombination – Command - V – or – Ctrl - V
In case you want to paste something with formatting, you can still do it by using – Edit > Paste Special…
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What is the best way to change ">" to ">=" in 100+ formulas such as:
=IF(INDEX($B$2:$B$46,MATCH(A3,$D$2:$D$46,0))**>**$A$2),"1","0")
=IF(INDEX($B$2:$B$46,MATCH(A3,$D$2:$D$46,0))**>**$B$2),"1","0")
=IF(INDEX($B$2:$B$46,MATCH(A3,$D$2:$D$46,0))**>**$C$2),"1","0")
Would I need some VBA code?
I would suggest one more idea if you are not comfortable doing the find and replace in excel.
Press the key combination Ctrl+` (BackQuote symbol)
Now you will have all the formulas visible in the cells.
Copy the range or columns in which you need to modify the formula
Paste it in a .txt file and then do the find and replace
Once it is done copy all the formula and paste it back to the same range.
Press Ctrl+` again and now you have got all the formulas changed as per your need
As long suggested, take a backup of your worksheet before you do these modifications
As Scott_Craner stated, a simple Find/Replace should work.
Save a version of your data in case you misjudged where the search subject is in your data.
Highlight the cells with the formulas you wish to change.
Press Ctrl and the F keys (or click on "Find&Select" in the Home tab in the "Editing" group and select Replace from the drop-down)
In the Find and Replace dialog box, make sure you are on the Replace tab.
In the "Find what:" box, type ">" without quotes (note, if there are other > symbols in some formulas, you can distinguish these with some repetitive text before and after)
In the "Replace with:" box, type "<" without quotes (note, if you included other text to specify certain instances of ">", make sure you include all the text that should also be replaced)
Hit the "Replace All" button.
Your spreadsheet formulas should now be as you'd like them. If they're not, thank goodness you saved another version first. Find/Replace is very powerful, so make sure to limit the scope by selecting the cells you want searched and being sure that Excel will find only those data you wish to change.
If you are interested in VBA, you could use it here. But Excel already has a powerful, user-friendly tool at your disposal.
I need to create a button to add to Excel (2010 currently) that will strip all the formatting in that column and just leave plain text. Our current solution is to copy the data into Notepad to strip out the formatting and then copy it back in from Notepad. This works, but is inelegant and would be far easier if I could just create a button to do this within Excel itself. I've seen a few solutions posted but none of them seem to deal with a randomly selected column. Help!
The Range.ClearFormats method seems appropriate here.
With Worksheets("Sheet1")
.Columns(1).ClearFormats 'clear formatting from column A
End With
'for a manually selected group of cells
Selection.ClearFormats 'clear formatting from the cells currently selected
fwiw, the Clear Formats command is available on the ribbon through Home ► Editing ► Clear ► Clear Formats (Alt+H+E+F). You could easily add that command to the QAT rather than create a macro that largely duplicates the command and assign it to a custom button.
Excel already has a button on the Home tab:
Just select the entire column and click Clear Formats
Just to add to Jeeped's answer:
Using this code you'll clear the whole columns formatting (select a random cell, run this code and the whole columns formatting has been cleared)
Sub ClearColumn()
i = ActiveCell.Column
ActiveSheet.Columns(i).ClearFormats
End Sub
The shortcut to comment out code in TOAD (11.6.16) is CTRL+B
However, the problem is that it does not let you comment out an exact selection within a block of code. So, when I press CTRL+B it simply comments out all the lines of the code , so I can't comment out a specific column with /* .. */ via keystroke.
Is there a way to run the arbitrary /* .. */ commenting ?
Not exactly, but you can get there by a lesser known feature. The Search and Replace macro. In the Editor hit Ctrl+R to get to the replace dialog. On the toolbar click the right-most button to get to the macro editor. Copy the entire contents, below, and paste into that dialog within the left side tree. It'll create a macro for you that I made. Hit close, etc. to get out of that dialog. Now, in the editor whenever you make your selection you can invoke this by using the little dropdown next to the replace button on the Editor toolbar. It's not exactly as easy as using keyboard shortcut, but it works and Search/Replace macros are super powerful for more complex work. Here's the dropdown I'm referring to.
Here's the code to copy/paste. Grab everything from (and including) "object" through to (and including) the "end"
object TComponentCollection
Items = {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}
end
I have a word document that is littered with hyperlinks. The links themselves work fine, but for some reason, most of them are not blue anymore! All I'm really looking to do is try to find a way to use a macro or something to go through the document and add the "Hyperlink" style format to each hyperlink.
I tried to edit some macro code myself (one that changes all the links URLs), but I keep making the problem worse! I used to be good at VBScript, but it's been ages since then.
Any easy solution that doesn't involve manually changing each style?
As a side note, all of them currently are in "Normal" style, for some reason.
Try to execute this VBA script (best in debugging mode using the F8 key - have VBA and Word windows side by side so you can see what's happening):
Sub FormatLinks()
Dim H As Hyperlink
For Each H In ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks
H.Range.Select ' (A)
Selection.ClearFormatting ' (B)
H.Range.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("Hyperlink") ' (C)
Next H
End Sub
This will
cycle through all hyperlinks in your document (A),
remove any formatting on the underlying text (B) and
assign the undrelying text to style "Hyperlink" (C)
(C) is not strictly necessary, as (B) should already sanitize your document, but maybe better to have hyperlinks really assigned to style "Hyperlink" because you may want to change the style later on.
I want to reproduce my code in Word 2010. The scripts were written in rstudio, and I would like to preserve rstudio's formatting when pasting into Word. Principally, I like the font colors and spacing that rstudio uses. I find that when I paste from SAS to Word, the formatting is preserved, but no dice here.
I would usually look for copy special / paste special options to do this, but I can't find any. When I try to paste special into word, only unformatted text options are presented. I would rather not reformat the text line-by-line, because I think it looks pretty nice in rstudio.
I thought of trying to save the script in rstudio to some format that would preserve its formatting, but I couldn't find any way to do this. How can it be done?
It's not totally clear whether you are pasting from RStudio's script editor (which has some 4 or 5 colors) or from the R console (script + output) within RStudio (which only has 2 colors).
If you are pasting from the console--please check "Paste special" again. There should be an option for "HTML Format" that will do what you need (though you may need to resize the font to make everything fit properly depending on your page margins).
If you are pasting from the script editor, then you're out of luck with a direct copy-and-paste solution. But there is a copy-and-paste-and-copy-and-paste solution...
One solution could be to use Notepad++. From RStudio, save your script (with a ".R" extension) then open the script in Notepad++. (Or copy and paste from RStudio to Notepad++, but make sure you set the file's language--from the "Language" menu--to R). When your script is correctly highlighted in Notepad++ go to the "Plugins > NppExport > Copy HTML to clipboard" menu to copy the open file. This can then be pasted into MS Word with HTML format.
Just in case someone else looks for this question...
Another way to have all the source code in a word document with a good-looking format using RStudio is to use the File/Compile Notebook option, choosing MS Word as the output format.
Using this option, a .docx document will be generated with the output of your script as well as the original source code. The script will be executed, though.
If you don't want your code to be evaluated (you just want a simple copy-paste), you can add #+eval=FALSE at the beginning of your script and then the source code will be reproduced in the word document without being evaluated.
This approach relies on knitr. Here is an example if anyone wants to start playing with this.
#' ---
#' title: "My homework"
#' author: John Doe
#' date: June 15, 2015
#' output: word_document
#' ---
# The header above sets some metadata used in the knitr output
# Conventional comments are formatted as regular comments
# Comments starting with "#+" control different knitr options.
#+echo=FALSE,message=FALSE,warning=FALSE
library(ggplot2)
#+echo=TRUE
#' Comments with a "+" sign are used to tell knitr what should be
#' done with the chunk of code:
#'
#' - echo: Show the original code or not
#' - eval: Run the original code or not
#' - message: Print messages
#' - warning: Print warnings
#' - error: Print errors
#' ...
#' Comments with an apostrophe "'" will be printed as regular text.
#' This is very useful to explain what you are actually doing!
# Regular comments can be used to document the code as usual
# Figures are printed:
ggplot(mpg, aes(x=cty, y=hwy)) + geom_point(aes(color=class))
#' Formatting **options** are possible.
#' Even [links](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10128702/how-to-preserve-formatting-from-rstudio-when-copy-pasting-to-word)
#'
#' This will show all the packages and versions used to generate this document.
#' It can be used to make sure that your teacher has all he needs to run your script
#' if he/she wants to.
sessionInfo()
Assuming you have internet access
Copy and paste to gist.gisthub.com
Select 'R' as the language - this should provide colours
Hit create (secret or public) gist
Copy and paste from the gist to your word processor.
Compared with the notepad++ solution:
An online backup to your code, with a recording of the time when you clipped it.
You don't have to install any other software, useful if you're a student using a public computer.
If you just need the code as formatted:
Step1: Just add #+eval=FALSE at the beginning of your code.
Step2: Then go to File -> Knit Document. Compile the file in msword/PDF/Html.
OR
Just add #+eval=FALSE at the beginning of your code.
Press CTRL+SHIFT+K and then compile the file in msword/PDF/Html.
If you need the code with output do not enter add #+eval=FALSE at the beginning of your code and perform step 2 directly.
I agree with zeehio that using Knitr is probably the best option. But another way is to use the Pretty R tool and the "open document text" steps here. Basically just copy and paste your code into pretty R, and copy and paste the output (not the html) into the open document.
After you copy from the Rstudio Console window and paste into a Word document, you need to highlight all the the just copied text and change the font into Courier New. This will give you the same spacing and lineup as you had in the Rstudio Console window.
Copy paste the code from Rstudio editor to 'visual studio code' & then again copy from there into a word processor.
For this to happen you must first install R extension in visual studio code.
'Visual studio code' is itself an IDE which can potentially be used for R language as well, but right now I'm emphasizing on using it to answer the above question.
In R I use the Monaco editor font. To copy paste the output of the R consol in Microsoft Word, I select the output of the consol, right click and copy and paste in my Word document. Once I have pasted the output in word, I select it and put it in Word's Monaco font and reduce the size of the font if necessary.
This does the job very nicely and perfectly preserves the output style from the R consol, as well as written chunks of code.
If you want to retain the formatting when coping a selection from the R Console you will need to install an older version of R Studio. Version 1.2.5042. it will not work in the newer versions