[Jerome Betts]

When I try to copy and paste verse into gmail as a Word document, after accessing gmail through Firefox, it downloads double spaced (and in the kind with hanging indents all flush left as well). I can find no way of changing this spacing.

Yet if I access gmail through Internet Explorer there is no problem and the download comes out as I had it in Microsoft Word and can be submitted in the body of an email as many editors request.

I feel I may be missing something obvious, so I wonder if anyone
has had had the same problem or knows what I’m doing wrong or not doing

[R.A. Briggs]

Plain text mode used to fix the double-spacing issue, but doesn't in the new Gmail. A bit of poking in Firefox around suggests that Shift + CTRL + V will paste plain text.

[Roger Slater]

Mysterious, perhaps, but I don't see the problem. Just use IE when you are submitting.

[Jerome Betts]

Thanks Rachael and Roger. Mozilla Firefox is supoposed to be more secure than IE, but certainly, as long as IE lasts, I can use that for submissions Annoying, though, that gmail has this odd quirk.

[Jerome Betts]

Rachael, forgot to say that your C + S+V suggestion works and delivers verse single-spaced . . . but in triplicate. I shall persevere . . .

[Ann Drysdale]

Jerome - what do you mean as long as IE lasts? Do you know something I don't?

[W.F. Lantry]

Originally Posted by Jerome Betts

I feel I may be missing something obvious, so I wonder if anyone
has had had the same problem or knows what I’m doing wrong or not doing

Yes. The problem is in Word itself. It adds so much junk into what looks like a normal file there's a whole industry of writing code strippers for word. Here's an example:

http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-a...ormatting.html

Because of this, I don't know why anyone would use Word for serious writing, but people have their habits. I don't run IE or Firefox, so I can't make a recommendation, and can only offer a search string suggestion. Try googling firefox microsoft word code stripper paste, or some variation on that theme. I'm pretty sure you'll find something.

Good luck!

Thanks,

Bill

[Jerome Betts]

Thanks, Bill. You open up new and hellish cyber-vistas. I've always used Word, on the better the devil you know principle, and had no idea of these
pullulating digital depths.

I probably won't fully understand your answer, but what do you use in fact?

[Roger Slater]

I haven't tried this myself, but I'm told that uploading a Word document into Google Docs and letting it convert to Google's format (an option on upload) will strip the code as Bill describes, while leaving key formatting in place.

But I still don't see why you'd bother. Just use IE, which probably works best because Microsoft makes sure that its word processor gets along well with its browser.

[Jerome Betts]

Thanks, Roger. I tend to use MF rather than IE these days as MF is said to be more secure, and gmail tries to convert me to Googlechrome when I use it via IE and says not all features may work properly in the IE it no longer supoports.