This one helped me, and made me angry at the same time: > 3) When I copy & paste text from a Word X document into a new message, > Entourage adds two additional lines between paragraphs. Am I missing a > setting? > > FOR PLAIN TEXT MESSAGES ONLY: > > After copying from Word, instead of simply pasting into your message, go to > the Edit menu in Entourage and select Paste Special->Paste as Plain Text (or > use the shortcut, Cmd-Option-V). This will lose any formatting such as italic > or bold, but if the text is all straight text, it works like a charm. > > FOR PLAIN TEXT & HTML MESSAGES: > > In Word, set "Paragraph Space After" to the same point size as your font > instead of using carriage returns after paragraphs. This is the customary > method used by professional document writers and you can make it the default > in your Normal Template (or any other template) and in your Normal Style (or > any other style) if you wish. To create the default in the Normal Style of > your Normal Template on which all new documents you open are based (unless you > specify otherwise): > > Open a new Word document and go to: > > Format/Style/[Normal]/Modify/Format/Paragraph > In "Spacing," set Paragraph Space After to the same point size as your text. > Press OK/OK/Close. If asked, save changes to your Normal Template when > quitting Word. > > Word will now put a space below each paragraph every time you press Return or > Enter. You do not press Return twice as in more primitive text editors (or > Entourage). Just once. If you ever want a new line without the space (for a > list, for example), press space-Return. > > Now you'll find that you can copy and paste from Word into Entourage without > the extra spaces and, in HTML messages, all your formatting will be preserved.
Word has been just fine in this area through several revisions. Why all of a sudden make this ³improvement² that gets in the way more often than it helps, that is only documented in an obscure (and very slow to load) web page, and that messes with user preferences that should have been preserved, not ³upgraded²? I am very concerned that the ³Chinese Wall² separating corporate Microsoft from the Mac Business Unit has become way too permeable. I would expect such poor user understanding in Windows. I am disappointed that I find it in the Mac Office. (Sorry for all the quotation marks. Safari actually gave me a message that the help page Diane referenced was running a script that made it very slow to load, do I want to cancel?) Barry on 5/8/08 8:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Subject: Re: Office 2008: yes or no? > > David Morganstein wrote: > >> > When I write something in Word and paste it into Entourage (non HTML for >> > emailing to lists), I get hard returns entered! Just one more new >> feature¹ >> > I¹d call a bug. >> > > See if these tips help: > > <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/get_started/use_word.html#word3> > > -- > Diane >
