Re: [Myexperiment-discuss] How can I remove "formatting text" from the "Description" of my file entry?

[Marchese Robinson, Richard]

Hi Alan

Thanks for looking at this.

I am working with Windows 7 Enterprise and Microsoft Office 2010. I was also 
copying and pasting from Adobe Reader X version 10.1.12. I suspect (but I am 
guessing) that this might have something to do with the specific characters I 
was copying and pasting - including quotation marks, which were displayed as 
'&quot' when I first tried converting the relevant text to ANSI in Notepad++.

Richard

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From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Alan R Williams
Sent: 29 August 2015 12:55
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Subject: Re: [Myexperiment-discuss] How can I remove "formatting text" from the 
"Description" of my file entry?

On 28-Aug-15 17:17, Marchese Robinson, Richard wrote:
> Hi

Hello

> I have been updating the "Description" of a (currently private)
> myExperiment.org file entry which I plan to make public in the very
> near future.
>
> As part of this, I copied and pasted some text from some Excel files,
> PDF files and Word documents. This appears to have resulted in the
> (rather annoying) long XML formatting string appearing when I view the
> updated file entry (in either Firefox 40.0.03 or IE 11):
>
> "<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View>
> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/>
> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>
> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> ....."

What operating system are you using? I have tried to replicate this on my 
Windows 8.1 machine and have not been able to. I copied text directly from Word 
and Excel and also from a PDF file using Chrome and Firefox. I used the 
Word/Excel Copy and then Ctrl-V'd into the description box.
This is Word and Excel 2010, with Firefox 39/40 and Chrome 36. The copying 
included formatted text (fonts, lists etc.). The formatting was not mimicked 
well, but I did not get any strange XML.

> I cannot work out how to remove this string. I have tried copying the
> text into a text file, making this ANSI using Notepad++, deleting the
> original description and copying from the text file ... without success.
> I have also tried playing around with the formatting options in the
> editor ... without success.
>
> Can anyone advise me as to how to fix this?

It is probably something horribly version specific. Can you give more details?

> Many thanks in advance!

Sorry I have not been more help.

> Richard

Alan



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