Dominic's suggestion works -- I often use notepad as staging-post between
stuff clipped from the web and Word. Another great way of doing it (in Word)
is:
From the Edit menu select 'Paste special'. This gives you a variety of
options, one of which is Unformatted text.
The way to type a 'hard carriage return' in Word is to hold SHIFT while
pressing ENTER. Being very lazy, I discovered years ago that the easy way of
controlling line spacing in a stanza without affecting the space between
stanzas, and vice versa, was to make each stanza an effective paragraph by
this means. You can fiddle about with spacing thereafter in the Format menu
options.
P
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to
> poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of ROBIN HAMILTON
> Sent: 16 November 2005 12:09
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Vixen's poem
>
> --- David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > pasting it from MS Word into e-mail throws the spacing out
> - it should
> > read as four line single spaced breaked stanzas but in
> e-mail you get
> > it as all 'spaced out'.
>
> You can get past this, dumbo, either by saving the post to
> Draft and knocking out the extra line-spaces there, or by
> typing a combo of keys in Word to avoid this happening. (I
> can't remember offhand what this is, but it's come up before
> on the list -- I think it was Roger Day who pointed it out.)
>
> Robin
>
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