Text style changed when copied from word

[mradovic123]

Hi,

I'm using Autocad 2013 and have problems when I want to copy some text from Word file. I'm doing that because translating text, which is translated already in Word. I.e., I have a text written in English in Autocad and now I have to select it all, and paste text copied from Word. It changes color (now it's "by Block"), but I change it back to "by Layer; and changes it's style even if in Word it is the same style as in Autocad (it is Arial in Word and in Autocad, but when I paste copied text it is in Times New Roman. 

Is there anything to set up not to change this text, because I have a lot of copy/pasteing to do and would save me a lot of time?

Thanks!

[hwalker]

Welcome to the Forums

There is a command in the EDIT menu called PASTE SPECIAL.

Choose that.

The bottom selection should read TEXT, choose that, and your text will be by layer.

As to the font changing. You need to set the font style beforehand. If you have a default style set up you should be good to go, otherwise set one up.

[scot-65]

To go about this is by doing one of the following:
Copy from that worm program, paste into Notepad, add a space to the front or back (or carriage-return), [Ctrl]+A to select all, [Ctrl]+C to copy (or [Ctrl]+X). Then paste into AutoCAD.
The other method I use is to paste into MTEXT or a table cell and adjust the format from there.
If you can save as that DOC file to a TXT file, all the much better as all the formatting will be gone (I think). Then copy-clip away...
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