(1) The first is related to copying and pasting text from the browser (eg IE).
Whenever I try to copy information from inside the browser to Word, the firewall will be triggered and ask if I want to access the site, no matter if being a single word, a single line or a complete table. Regardless of allowing or denying such an access, the delay could prolong and is very very interrupting.
I only find a workaround if the intended pasting is plain text, you can go to "
Edit\Paste Special..." and in the next popup dialog choose "
Unformatted Text" or "
Unformatted Unicode Text", Word will then choose not to visit the site. However, I did not manage find a way to speed up this two-step process using a keyboard shortcut or alike.
I have created a small add-in that hosts a new toolbar, on which you can find a "
Paste as Plain Text" button so that now one click will do the job. You may download the add-in here. To install, copy it to the template startup folder of Microsoft Word. You may find the path from "
Tools\Options\ File Locations". Click on "
Modify..." to see the full path. Next time you start Word, a new toolbar would be shown.
If you do not want the toolbar occupying your precious screen estate in Word, hide it and assign a keyboard shortcut to the corresponding macro. Go to "
Customize...", click "
Keyboard...", select "
Macro" from "
Categories", Select "
PastAsPlainText" from "
Macros" to the right, assign a key combinations to it, for example, Ctrl-Shift-V.
The code for the macro is extremely simple, there is only one important line:
Application.Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText(2) The second is that copying formatted content from Word into HTML editor or saving it as HTML files, many Microsoft-specific tags are taken along together with necessary HTML markups. They are embeeded for the sake of supporting "round trips" if you ever need to re-open HTML in Word again - though this is not happening most of the time.
In Word XP/2003, you can choose "
Web Page, Filtered" in "
Save As..." to produce a less bloated HTML file.
For Word 2000, you can install
Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0 from
here to remove Office-specific markup tags embedded. To export as lean HTML, go to "
File\Export To" and clikc "
Compact HTML". You can also copy any fragment of a Word document as HTML and paste it into an HTML or text editor as filtered (ie compact) HTML markup. Use "
Edit\Copy as HTML" instead of "
Edit\Copy" to create a compact HTML copy.
Take a look at what Office-specific markups have been removed with this filter.
Using Office HTML Filter to remove Office-specific markup
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010549981033.aspx
Using Office HTML Filter at the command prompt
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010552491033.aspx
If it can be used at the command prompt, it should be used with other Office versions and the command prompt could be handy when dealing with batch files.