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Microsoft Publisher 2007

Insert from a Text File without Copying and Pasting

SUMMARY: Insert the contents of a text file into a story in a Publisher 2007 document without using the clipboard.

Perhaps you have written driving directions, a basic restaurant menu, a blurb for a company newsletter, or other text into Notepad or another text editor. The text needs to be inserted into a Microsoft Publisher 2007 document and formatted. Instead of re-opening the document, copying, then pasting the text into a Publisher story, here's a shortcut.

1. Click inside a text box in which you want text inserted, or create a new text box.

2. Select "Insert" - "Text File".

3. An "Insert Text" dialog box appears. Navigate your computer, removable media, network shares, etc. to the file you wish to open and double-click it.



Inserting a text file into a Publisher 2007 document



If your text is too large for the text box, you'll be given the option to have Publisher flow the text into an existing or new text box. These will then be connected together as a story. Otherwise, overflowing text will be contained in the box but remain hidden.


Publisher 2007 asking if you wish to use autoflow when inserting text from an external file

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