> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:26:28 -0700, Dick Applebaum
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Copy pasting into what?
> >
> > If it is just a doc displayed in word into a text area, you don't
> need
> > to do anything -- you are copying the text only, not the formatting
> > info.
>
> This is not true, as I've run into this problem first-hand in a couple
> of data entry tool projects I have worked on. MS quotes, apostrophes,
> emdashes, etc., all paste as they are formatted in MS Word into
> textareas, at least in IE 6 on Windows. Unfortunately, when this gets
> saved to the database (in our case, Oracle using cfqueryparam), these
> special characters are saved as boxes, which is a pain in the butt. To
> get around this problem, I use a great UDF (that was also just updated
> a few days ago to improve its scrubbing range) in the cfquerparam
> calls to clean up these sorts of characters:
>
Mmmm...
I just verified this on the Mac OS X.
Regardless of the display mode on word, I can copy/paste and only get
valid characters (including smart quotes, etc) -- no unprintables, no
little boxes.
'Course Mac Word is ahead of WinWord %^)>
Dick
> http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm/demoronize
>
> Regards,
> Dave.
>
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