Pasting from Word into the Internet

Before putting text into a web-based environment - e.g. a MOODLE discussion, it's really useful to draft your work in MS Word, saving a copy, and using the MS Word spellcheck and grammar check tools.

However, according to the programmes you are using, you may sometimes see some funny results from your pasting with odd bits of computer code appearing. These come from the Word source.

To avoid this:

1) Some Internet sites have a special 'clean Word' copy icon to use to paste. Check toolbars for this.
2) Other Internet sites will ask you whether you want to keep or remove 'formatting'; Remove it.

This works the other way round as well, i.e. when copy-pasting from the Internet to Word. When doing this:
1) Instead of using paste, use paste special (go to 'edit' on your toolbar); and select paste as unformatted text.

This gets rid of images, codes and all other unnecessary material and makes the pasting a lot quicker as well.