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copy/pasting from WORD put extraneous characters in another application

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I used to copy/paste parts of text in WORD to an application (Reference Manager V12).  Since I'm using WORD 2013, the paste results in copying not only the text but also additional information that my application does not understand.

As an example, I write in WORD "123123" and make a copy.  Then I paste it in the application and here is what I get:

PrFont34Bin0BinSub0Frac0Def1Margin0Margin0Jc1Indent1440Lim0Lim1123123 ...

How do I copy without these extraneous characters ?

This only occurs with WORD, not if I copy/paste from Excel or PowerPoint, or if I copy first in NotePad and then make a copy/paste from there. 

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Does Reference Manager have a Paste Special option like Word's that would allow you to paste as unformatted text? Word's text does include a lot of formatting. If you paste from Word into a Web page and then examine the HTML, you'll see a lot of similar garbage. Many applications are capable of interpreting this data; obviously Reference Manager is not.
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Last updated October 5, 2021 Views 501 Applies to: