Cutting and pasting from word into paratext notes

Question

I’m trying to copy consultant notes from a word document and paste them into an inserted note int the text. All I’m getting is blanks but it moves the cursor down several spaces in the note. Is there a way to take consultant notes off a word doc and insert them into a note?

Answer 1

I’m trying this out and I don’t see a problem. Just a mild annoyance if I select a whole paragraph in Word, then paste that in a note I get two blank lines before my text starts. But I can remove those.

I have Word 2013. What version of Word are you pasting from?

Does it work if you paste first into Notepad, then select & copy from there and paste into the Paratext note?

Comments

I’m using Word 2016 and it seems to be pasting only part of the text I copy from the word doc. which is an improvement over yesterday when I was getting nothing.
However when I copy and paste to notepad and then copy from notepad and paste to paratext it gets it all in there without the extra empty lines in front as well.

---

sewhite,
Did you get my response? I said it was now putting part of the text I
copied in with the same blank lines you experienced. And that when I
pasted the word stuff into Notepad and copied from Notepad and pasted into
paratext everything showed up fine.
anon512227

Answer 2

When you cut and paste from Word to Notes, Word styles are transferred into the Notes.

You may want to experiment with saving your Word doc as simplified HTML: Web Page (filtered).