Moving Text from Word into Composer

There are several ways to get text only or text AND formatting from other programs such as Word into Composer:

The easiest way to transfer text and formatting is to copy from Word and paste into Composer.
- You should be in regular shape pointer mode when pasting into Composer.
- Composer will put up a font substitution dialog box. Click OK to accept the defaults.
- Paragraphs of text with automatic line breaks come through as individual lines of small text
- If you have different fonts, sizes and bullets, it will bring those over but each text style becomes its own separate block of small text. You might have to slightly adjust the location or point size of the lines of small text.
- If you want to change fonts or bullets for volumes of text, it is easier to do so in Word and re-paste into Composer.
- If you have text in a table, it will bring the text and table from Word into Composer but you will have to select the text and move it down slightly to get it back into the table. But it sure beats re-entering and reformatting the text!

If you want to get text only with no formatting, copy the text from Word and bring up the small text or Composer text dialog box and paste the text into the dialog box. The text will be generated using the settings from the dialog box. You will get messages about missing characters but the text itself will come through.