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We are having issues with users pasting text they wrote in word (due to the spelling and grammar checker) that are causing documents to corrupt.
Is there any other way to deal with this than just telling users not to do it?
If I were solving this with another programming language, I would add in a routine that manually scrubs the text so it will stop corrupting the document. Does anyone have code they can share that does this with MEL?
Thanks!
Posted : February 18, 2015 3:38 am
For me, the easiest solution is to copy and paste from Word into Wordpad or Notepad, then paste to CPS. I don't of any code.
Posted : February 18, 2015 4:39 am
Use WordPad, not Word. Simplest solution as it does the scrubbing for you.
Posted : February 18, 2015 5:35 am
Topic starter
Thanks for the responses.
The issue though is we can't make the users choose notepad or wordpad - we tell them, but they still pick word (knowingly and unknowingly). We are a university as well, so we get this happening frequently due to a continual influx of new people.
I am wondering if anyone has found another solution via a MEL function.
Posted : February 18, 2015 5:39 am
I'm on CPS 12.0.7.
In the SetUp commands at the top of Chart and Chart Desktop, I built a button to open Notepad.
The command Line is notepad.exe.
Having notepad right there and so easy to launch helped with the pasting issue for us.
FYI: I also added calculator and the comand line is calc.exe.
Posted : February 18, 2015 5:53 am
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This would be to tackle the pasting from word issue from another angle.
Create a Word add-in that has
- Large button visible on the home toolbar labelled “Copy for CPS”
- When clicked, the button would copy all the word document contents as text
User is then able to easily use word and paste the text in to CPS.
Wonder if that is possible.
Posted : February 18, 2015 8:19 am
We have the same problem. We tell employees "the fix" of utilizing notepad as a conduit but they either forget or decided it is too much trouble for them then we end up with issues. Management has to be able to reprimand people to make them do their jobs otherwise you will have issues
I like SteveSharp's idea but GE would need to be on board. It seems simple enough of a solution but the fact that it isn't there now means it probably isn't that simple (I am not a APP / Dev guy). It would be even better if CPS scrubbed off the special characters before a db commit because a lot of our stuff comes from eligibility websites so the "copy as txt" button would need to be in IE
Mike Zavolas
Tallahassee Neurological Clinic
Posted : March 4, 2015 10:37 am
One solution/workaround to the problem is to upgrade to Office 2013. Once we upgraded Office, we started getting an error message that told the user: "The clipboard contains Microsoft Word formatting codes that are not compatible with this document. Paste the clipboard contents into WordPad. Then copy from WordPad and paste into this document."
Posted : March 5, 2015 5:34 am
