Microsoft® Office 2003 Editions Resource Kit

Copying Multilingual Text in Different Formats in Office

You can use the Clipboard to copy multilingual text from one Microsoft Office 2003 Editions application to another. Text from the Clipboard that is formatted as RTF, HTML, or Unicode can successfully be pasted into Office applications.

Multilingual text formatted as RTF, HTML, or Unicode

When you copy text from a Microsoft Office 2003 Editions document, the RTF or HTML formatting data, as well as the Unicode text data, is stored on the Clipboard. This allows applications that do not support Unicode but do support data in multiple code pages to accept RTF text from the Clipboard, which retains some of the multilingual content. For example, both Microsoft Word 95 and Microsoft Word 6.0 ...