Thursday, October 21, 2004
Banana for breakfast. White Coat web updates for Joel. Initiated process to get digital copies of student photos from our partner who makes picture books. Finally tried out "Make Word's Default Paste Unformatted"—a Q&A from PC Magazine asked by Tom Patterson and answered by Neil J. Rubenking. Chris De Lay said the answer worked for him, but when I tried it in Word 2003 under Windows XP SP2 it wouldn't work for me. Whenever I'd record the macro, it seemed the wrong function ( Selection.PasteAndFormat (wdPasteDefault) ) was getting put in, and Ctrl+V did the formatted paste like I had done nothing about it. I found the correct function in MSDN and manually pasted it into the macro, and then it worked as I expected. Here's the complete working macro: Sub UnformattedTextPaste() ' ' UnformattedTextPaste Macro ' Macro recorded 10/21/2004 by Frank Farm ' Selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart Selection.Range.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText End Sub Helped student Fred J with a computer virus problem. Lunch: roast turkey with mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, vegetable beef soup. Upgraded Cindy's computer to XP SP2. Helped student Ardelle L with a Web site. Planned a surprise event for me and Patrick. Dinner at home by myself: canned soup.