Cheating on Tests
Edit > Paste Special > Unformatted Text
This is my Number 1 piece of advice, even if it is numbered eight. When you copy things from the web into Word, ignoring #3 above, don’t just “Edit > Paste” it into your document. When I am reading a document in black, Times New Roman, 12pt, and it suddenly changes to blue, Helvetica, 10pt (yes, really), I’m going to guess that something odd may be going on. This seems to happen in about 1% of student work turned in, and periodically makes me feel like becoming a hermit.
Zwack • May 25, 2006 1:18 PM
But sometimes I cut and paste information from one source into another… Even though I wrote both.
Sometimes I decide that only one or two small pieces were worth keeping and so I copy just those bits into a new document…
Of course, I personally am interested in moving the contents over and not the formatting. Whoever decided that I should keep the formatting needs to get out more.
Z.