Span tags everywhere after import from Word

[Scotty]

I'm trying to import from a Word document, but I'm getting a tonne of superfluous span tags in Flare 7.

For example, something like this from Word:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The dog was not amused.

...looks like this in Flare:

[The] [quick brown] [fox jumps] [over] [the] [lazy dog. The] [dog was not] [amused.]

(with the [ and ] representing visual span tag markers)

Ideas?

EDIT: I've turned on the paragraph marking and such in the Word document, there's nothing unusual that I can see.

[alaltenburg]

I would also love an answer for this, as I have had these span tags since I imported Word documents into Flare 5 back in 2009. I always just left them there as although they are a nuisance, it does not hurt the output.

[jasonsmith]

I think you need to select the Don't Preserve MS Word Styles option in the Source Styles section during import. That should do it.

[Diana_BB]

If you don't want to reimport, you can select the text and click the Unformat button in the Home > Font ribbon to remove all those spans.

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Diana

[alaltenburg]

Diana,
Is there a way to do an entire project or will I have to select each file separately? Thanks for the tip!

[Diana_BB]

If it's a long Word doc, you should reimport as Jason suggested. I don't get those spans when I use that option, and I don't think there is a way to clean up an entire project all at once.

If you have to review every topic anyway, you can select all and then use the Unformat button--it would be each file separately.

Sorry. Maybe someone else has a better idea.

Diana

[alaltenburg]

Thank you Diana,
My original import was back in 2009 so I do not want to reimport but will at some time think about unformatting. I do not want to loose all the work I have done since then.

[Diana_BB]

I think that's a smart idea--don't create more work than necessary. Good luck with it.

Diana

[Scotty]

Awesome, thanks for the help everyone!