Use notepad to remove background color before paste in MS Word
January 31, 2012TOPIC LEVEL: Intermediate**
Before! I discourage my client to find contents with background color. Because when you paste it to MS Word, you cannot edit its color even using the fill color options in MS Word. So I realize that there is something, there is something that cant read background colors! And that application is… NOTEPAD! Like every other techniques we learn from my site about the usage of Notepad, here is another marvelous trick!
“GET CONTENTS, PASTE IT TO NOTEPAD
and PASTE IT MS WORD!”
That picture is a sample highlighted lyrics website with violet background. The sky blue is the color of highlighted text ready to be copied.
After the contents has been copied, paste it to WORD. And it will looks like this! The violet background is also captured. I discourage this kind of layout, because when you print this kind of document, they are not willing to pay for the colored/black and white background of the text. They will just say: “Sir, it has no picture! Why I will pay for the background color”. So, it’s better to eliminate those backgrounds to make everything in order. Notepad to the rescue! Hehehe…
Since the content are just lyrics, there are no worries in layout. Even it is aligned center, justified or whatever it is, you can just edit that in MS Word later.
Just align it, whatever you want it! Cheers!
Remember: You can also use this technique for all researches without images or tables. Because notepad is a application with limited capabilities and it doesnt support those features mention. This trick is best for paragraphs, lyrics, poems, and other related text based research.
