boring, yet complicated

[deird1]

Today, my job works like this:

1) Open up a long Word document.

2) Get the first ten pages, and copy-paste them into Notepad - so that it strips ALL the formatting.

3) Copy-paste from Notepad back into a non-formatted Word document. Fix all the issues that are still there.

4) Copy-paste from the non-formatted Word document, into a Word document that's formatted in a different way to the original Word document. Hurrah! Now it looks like it's supposed to!

5) Go back to the original Word document, grab the next ten pages, and start the whole process again.

This is going to take me hours...

Comments

[velvetwhip]

Sorry.


Gabrielle

[immer_am_lesen]

Sounds...boring.

Well, it's work, though, and you're being paid to do something so simple...just think, you could be working flat-out off your feet, asking people if they'd like fries with that...or filling bags at the supermarket...

Every job has its godawfully boring parts, but at least it's an easy indoors job. :-)

[deird1]

Indeed. :)

(Although we're having a Big Redundancy Meeting this arvo...)



BTW, sorry for not getting back to you yet - took a week to get a list of dates from my housemate, and now I'm sorting out my calendar.

[immer_am_lesen]

Eek, Redundancy Meeting...I hope they cater it well, to make up for what will no doubt be a very sad meeting. :-(
I hope you come out of it alive!

Hey, no worries...email me when you have some dates you know will be free. :-)

[doughtier]

I'm preeeeeeeetty sure there's an option on Word to get rid of formatting. It wouldn't solve everything, but it might get rid of one stage of the process. I'll let you know if I encounter it.

This is what I've found, MSWord 2010: http://i48.tinypic.com/20shm2w.png
Something similar probably exists in earlier versions. Play around with your document preferences and settings?

More tricks:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-ways-to-strip-formatting-from-text-in-ms-word-2007/
http://www.timeatlas.com/5_minute_tips/general/clearing_format_codes_in_microsoft_word

ctrl+spacebar seems to work for me!