However, I tried the "Clear Formatting" option in Google Docs and have tried pasting with Ctrl+Shift+V and neither fix the issue.
This made me think that it's some additional web formatting that Word is "smart" enough to strip out but that the text editors leave in. This also happens when I paste into WordPad, but when I paste into Word it comes out like the original. So the one blank line between Lines 2 and 3 becomes two blank lines, and the two blank lines between Lines 3 and 4 become four blank lines, but the line break from hitting Enter at the end of Line 1 does not become one blank line between Lines 1 and 2.
If you don’t want to have to manually remove the style information once you have pasted the. To provide a visual example, this original Google Docs text: Line 1Ĭomes out like this when pasted into Notepad: Line 1 By default, Microsoft Word tries to preserve the styles of text copied from a source outside of Word.
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(Technically it's a plain text field within another program but the same thing happens when I paste to Windows Notepad.) What is odd is that not all the line breaks are doubled, but only the ones that create vertical whitespace, that is, whenever I hit Enter twice in a row or more, all line breaks after the first one end up doubled when it's pasted. 2) use a formula to drop the last character, something like. About 3 weeks ago I began to have this problem occur whenever I copy text from a Google Docs document in Chrome browser and paste it into a text editor. 1) highlight the column and use 'Find/replace' (ctrl-H) to replace a space ' ' with nothing '' (dont enter the quotes) - this method can be used to get rid of any unwanted characters in imported data.