How do you display code snippets in MS Word preserving format and syntax highlighting

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Does anyone know a way to display code in Microsoft Word documents that preserves coloring and formatting  Preferably  the method would also be unobtrusive and easy to update   I have tried to include code as regular text which looks awful and gets in the way when editing regular text   I have also tried inserting objects  a WordPad document and Text Box  into the document then putting the code inside those objects   The code looks much better and is easier to avoid while editing the rest of the text   However  these objects can only span one page which makes editing a nightmare when several pages of code need to be added   Lastly  I know that there are much better editors formats that have no problem handling this but I am stuck working with MS word

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This is a bit indirect  but it works very nicely   Get LiveWriter and install this plugin   http   lvildosola blogspot com 2007 02 code-snippet-plugin-for-windows-live html  Insert your code using the plugin into a blog post   Select all and copy it to Word   It looks great and can include line numbers   It also spans pages decently   HTH  Colby Africa

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If you re using TextMate  On OS X   use the  copy as rtf  command  It will place pretty-printed text onto the clipboard     From there you can paste into word or anything else

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Use a monospaced font like Lucida Console  which comes with Windows   If you cut paste from Visual Studio or something that supports syntax highlighting  you can often preserve the colour scheme of the syntax highlighter

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Try defining a style called  code  and make it use a small fixed width font  it should look better then   Use CTRL SPACEBAR to reset style

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I type my code in Visual Studio  and then copy-paste into word  it preserves the colors

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If you already have the document created with plenty of code snippets in it and you are racing against time  as I unfortunately was   Save the file as a  doc as opposed to  docx and voila  Worked for me  Phew   NOTE  Obviously your document can t have fancy features from   word 2007   NOTE 2  File size becomes bigger if this is a concern to you

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Code Format Addin is now available in Office Addins with Office 365   Just select the code and click convert it and it converts the code text to formatted color code with line numbers       Bit Rejoice   Code Format is available here  https   appsource microsoft com en-us product office WA104379501 tab Overview

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From Powershell ISE copy and paste to Word  Same with Visual Studio

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Vim has a nifty feature that converts code to HTML format preserving syntax highlighting  font style  background color and even line numbers  Run  TOhtml and vim creates a new buffer containing html markup   Next  open this html file in a web browser and copy paste whatever it rendered to Word  Vim tips wiki has more information

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Download and install Notepad   and do the following    Paste your code in the window  Select the programming language from the language menu  Select the text to copy  Right click and select Plugin commands -  Copy Text with Syntax Highlighting  Paste it into MS Word and you are good to go    Update 29 06 2013   Notepad   has a plugin called  NppExport   comes pre-installed  that allows you to copy to RTF  HTML and ALL  It permits dozens of languages  whereas the aforementioned IDEs are limited to a handful each  without other plug-ins    I use Copy all formats to clipboard and  paste as HTML  in MS word

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There really isn t a clean way to do it  and it could still look fishy based on your exact style settings   What you could try to do is to first run a code-to-HTML conversion  there are many programs that do that   and then try to open up the HTML file with word  that might hopefully provide you with the formatted and pretty code  and then copy and paste it into your document

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The best presentation for code in documents is in a fixed-width font  as it should appear in an IDE   with either a faint  shaded background or a light border to distinguish the block from other text

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I m using Easy Code Formatter  It s also an Office add-in  It allows you to select the coding style   and has a quick formatting button  Pretty neat

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You can just use PlanetB  http   planetb ca syntax-highlight-word  Copy and Past  choose the language and enjoy the result

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I have created an easier method using tables  as they are easier to create  manage  and more consistent  with the possibility to save the table s style inside the document itself   but I couldn t find a better way for code colouring scheme  sorry for that   Steps    Create a 3x3 table  Select the table  and make its borders invisible   No Borders  option   and activate  View Gridlines  option   Make the adjustments to cells  spacing and columns  widths to get the desired aspect   You will have to get in  Table Properties  for fine tuning    Create a  Paragraph Style  with the name of  Code  just for your code snippets  as mentioned in https   stackoverflow com a 25092977 8533804  Create another  Paragraph Style  with the name of  Code numberline  that will be based upon the previous created style  but this you will add a numbering line in its definition  this will automate line numbering    Apply  Code numberline  to the first column  and  Code  to the 3 column   Add a fill in the middle column   Save that table style and enjoy

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I ve read and tried all the posts and I would like to give an overview of all the solutions  The best way is depending on your requirements  If there are only short snippets that are not longer than a page then go with Insert Object  If the code is longer than one page go with RTF Formatting   Insert Textbox   No page break possible Spell check available Formatting can be ruined very quickly In a document with thousands of pages Word 2016 started to make problems  At some point Word always crashed while trying to insert a new Textbox    Insert Object   Document   No page break possible No spell check Formatting and content stays safe   RTF Formatting   Page breaks possible Spell check available Annoying line numbers when copying the code again from word Online  Planet2b ca http   www planetb ca syntax-highlight-word Offline  Highlight http   www andre-simon de doku highlight highlight php   Or any other wysiwyg-editor online tool library to style the code   Some plug-ins add-ons  All down or doesn t work anymore

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I was also looking for it and ended up creating something for my code display  Here s a good way    Create a rectangular form and place your text inside  Change the font to Consolas and size  10  Change the text font to gray near-black  gray 25   darker 75   Use darker colors to highlight your text if needed and choose one to be the contour

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Download and install Notepad   and do the following    Paste your code in the window  Select the programming language from the language menu  Select the text to copy  Right click and select Plugin commands -  Copy Text with Syntax Highlighting  Paste it into MS Word and you are good to go    Update 29 06 2013   Notepad   has a plugin called  NppExport   comes pre-installed  that allows you to copy to RTF  HTML and ALL  It permits dozens of languages  whereas the aforementioned IDEs are limited to a handful each  without other plug-ins    I use Copy all formats to clipboard and  paste as HTML  in MS word

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You can also use SciTE to paste code if you don t want to install heavy IDEs and then download plugins for all the code you re making  Simply choose your language from the language menu  type your code  high-light code  select Edit- Copy as RTF  paste into Word with formatting  default paste    SciTE supports the following languages but probably has support for others  Abaqus   Ada  ANS 1 MIB definition files   APDL  Assembler  NASM  MASM   Asymptote   AutoIt   Avenue   Batch files  MS-DOS   Baan   Bash   BlitzBasic   Bullant   C C   C   Clarion  cmake   conf  Apache   CSound  CSS   D  diff files   E-Script   Eiffel   Erlang   Flagship  Clipper   XBase   Flash  ActionScript   Fortran   Forth   GAP   Gettext  Haskell  HTML   HTML with embedded JavaScript  VBScript  PHP and ASP   Gui4Cli   IDL - both MSIDL and XPIDL   INI  properties  and similar  InnoSetup   Java   JavaScript   LISP   LOT   Lout   Lua   Make  Matlab   Metapost   MMIXAL  MSSQL  nnCron  NSIS   Objective Caml   Opal  Octave   Pascal Delphi   Perl  most of it except for some ambiguous cases   PL M   Progress   PostScript   POV-Ray   PowerBasic   PowerShell   PureBasic   Python   R   Rebol   Ruby   Scheme   scriptol   Specman E   Spice  Smalltalk  SQL and PLSQL  TADS3   TeX and LaTeX  Tcl Tk   VB and VBScript   Verilog   VHDL   XML   YAML

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I type my code in Visual Studio  and then copy-paste into word  it preserves the colors

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This is a bit indirect  but it works very nicely   Get LiveWriter and install this plugin   http   lvildosola blogspot com 2007 02 code-snippet-plugin-for-windows-live html  Insert your code using the plugin into a blog post   Select all and copy it to Word   It looks great and can include line numbers   It also spans pages decently   HTH  Colby Africa

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Use a monospaced font like Lucida Console  which comes with Windows   If you cut paste from Visual Studio or something that supports syntax highlighting  you can often preserve the colour scheme of the syntax highlighter

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If its Java source code copy it to Visual Studio and then copy it back to Word

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After reading a lot of related answers  I came across my own solution  which for me is the most suitable one   Result looks like this    As you can see  it is the same syntax highlighting like on Stack Overflow which is quite awesome   Steps to reproduce   on Stack Overflow   Goto Ask Question  preferably with Chrome  Paste Code and add a language tag  e g  Java  to get syntax hightlighting Copy code from preview   in Word   Insert   Table   1x1 Paste code Table Design   Borders   No Border Select code   Edit   Find   Replace Search Document  p  Paragraph Mark  Replace With  l  Manual Line Break   This is required to remove the gaps between some lines  Select code again   Review   Language   check  Do not check spelling or grammar  Finally add a caption using References   Insert Caption   New Label   name it  Listing  or sth   Sample code thanks to this guy

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Maybe this is overly simple  but have you tried pasting in your code and setting the font on it to Courier New

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Maybe this is overly simple  but have you tried pasting in your code and setting the font on it to Courier New

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Copying into Eclipse and paste it in Word is also another option

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This is a bit indirect  but it works very nicely   Get LiveWriter and install this plugin   http   lvildosola blogspot com 2007 02 code-snippet-plugin-for-windows-live html  Insert your code using the plugin into a blog post   Select all and copy it to Word   It looks great and can include line numbers   It also spans pages decently   HTH  Colby Africa

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I type my code in Visual Studio  and then copy-paste into word  it preserves the colors

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Copying into Eclipse and paste it in Word is also another option

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Ok  this is weird  but to address the background color issue I paste in the text as normal  select the whole block  click on the highlighter tool to highlight  even if the highlight is set to  No Color    and then I can style the text block without the background color of the text remaining white   I am using VS 11 and Word 2010  but the problem has been around for a long time  see http   www visualstudiodev com visual-studio-setup-installation copypaste-code-from-vs-1305 shtml

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Code Format Addin is now available in Office Addins with Office 365   Just select the code and click convert it and it converts the code text to formatted color code with line numbers       Bit Rejoice   Code Format is available here  https   appsource microsoft com en-us product office WA104379501 tab Overview

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Just paste your code in MS Words  select it -  then right click -  Numbering  In this case MS Word will interpret your code as marker numbered list   Here is the screens    Screen1   Screen2

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There is a nice Online Tool for that   http   www planetb ca syntax-highlight-word  Just copy the generated code and paste it in your word editing software  So far I ve tried it on MS Word and WPS Writer  works really well  Doesn t play nice with Firefox but works just fine on Chrome  and IE too  but who wants to use that    One of the main benefits is that  unlike the Code Format Add-In for Word  it does NOT mess with your code  and respects various languages syntax  I tried many other options offered in other answer but I found this one to be the most efficient  quick and really effective    There is also another onlinz tool quoted in another answer  markup su  but I find the planetB output more elegant  although less versatile    Input       Output

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I have created an easier method using tables  as they are easier to create  manage  and more consistent  with the possibility to save the table s style inside the document itself   but I couldn t find a better way for code colouring scheme  sorry for that   Steps    Create a 3x3 table  Select the table  and make its borders invisible   No Borders  option   and activate  View Gridlines  option   Make the adjustments to cells  spacing and columns  widths to get the desired aspect   You will have to get in  Table Properties  for fine tuning    Create a  Paragraph Style  with the name of  Code  just for your code snippets  as mentioned in https   stackoverflow com a 25092977 8533804  Create another  Paragraph Style  with the name of  Code numberline  that will be based upon the previous created style  but this you will add a numbering line in its definition  this will automate line numbering    Apply  Code numberline  to the first column  and  Code  to the 3 column   Add a fill in the middle column   Save that table style and enjoy

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Answer for people trying to resolve this issue in 2019   Most answers to this question are outdated by now  I wish there was a way to reinspect old questions and answers every now and then   The method I found for this question that works with Office 365 and its associated programs can be found here

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You can paste your code into LINQPad  Then copy from LINQPad into MS Word  LINQPad supports following programming languages  C   VB  SQL  ESQL and F

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If you are using Sublime Text  you can copy the code from Sublime to MS Word preserving the syntax highlighting     Install the package called SublimeHighlight   In Sublime  using your cursor  select the code you want to copy  right click it  select  copy as rtf   and paste into MS Word

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Try defining a style called  code  and make it use a small fixed width font  it should look better then   Use CTRL SPACEBAR to reset style

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If its Java source code copy it to Visual Studio and then copy it back to Word

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Simply right click and paste using the  Keep Source Formatting  option  I do this almost everyday to document my work  Further  you can set the  default paste  for pasting from various soures in File Options Advanced Cut CopyPaste  Also useful  enable  Show paste options  in the same section of Word Options   Note that all of the text properties from your Code Editor s theme  colors  fonts  etc   will be added to the Stylesheet in your Word doc  so I would recommend that you not make any changes directly to the pasted text as that will add clutter to your stylesheet and subsequent pastes will not match   It will be to your great advantage to do a quick study on using  Styles  in Word  which are actually CSS   They are very powerful  Using Word s Stylesheet you can make global changes to the pasted text  but it will probably cause subsequent pasted text to add new styles

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There is a nice Online Tool for that   http   www planetb ca syntax-highlight-word  Just copy the generated code and paste it in your word editing software  So far I ve tried it on MS Word and WPS Writer  works really well  Doesn t play nice with Firefox but works just fine on Chrome  and IE too  but who wants to use that    One of the main benefits is that  unlike the Code Format Add-In for Word  it does NOT mess with your code  and respects various languages syntax  I tried many other options offered in other answer but I found this one to be the most efficient  quick and really effective    There is also another onlinz tool quoted in another answer  markup su  but I find the planetB output more elegant  although less versatile    Input       Output

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Answer for people trying to resolve this issue in 2019   Most answers to this question are outdated by now  I wish there was a way to reinspect old questions and answers every now and then   The method I found for this question that works with Office 365 and its associated programs can be found here

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Maybe this is overly simple  but have you tried pasting in your code and setting the font on it to Courier New

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This is the simplest approach I follow  Consider I want to paste java code    I paste the code here so that spaces  tabs and flower brackets are neatly formated http   www tutorialspoint com online java formatter htm Then I paste the code got from step 1 here so that the colors  fonts are added to the code http   markup su highlighter  Then paste the preview code got from step 2 to the MS word  Finally it will look like this

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Maybe this is overly simple  but have you tried pasting in your code and setting the font on it to Courier New

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If you re using TextMate  On OS X   use the  copy as rtf  command  It will place pretty-printed text onto the clipboard     From there you can paste into word or anything else

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A web site for coloration with lots of languages   http   hilite me   You can host one yourself since it is open source  The code is on github

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This is a bit indirect  but it works very nicely   Get LiveWriter and install this plugin   http   lvildosola blogspot com 2007 02 code-snippet-plugin-for-windows-live html  Insert your code using the plugin into a blog post   Select all and copy it to Word   It looks great and can include line numbers   It also spans pages decently   HTH  Colby Africa

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If you already have the document created with plenty of code snippets in it and you are racing against time  as I unfortunately was   Save the file as a  doc as opposed to  docx and voila  Worked for me  Phew   NOTE  Obviously your document can t have fancy features from   word 2007   NOTE 2  File size becomes bigger if this is a concern to you

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In my experience copy-paste from eclipse and Notepad   works directly with word   For some reason I had a problem with a file that didn t preserve coloring  I made a new  java file  copy-paste code to that  then copy-paste to word and it worked     As the other guys said  create a new paragraph style  What I do is use mono-spaced font like courier new  small size close to 8px for fonts  single spaced with no space between paragraphs  make tab stops small  0 5cm 1cm    5cm   put a simple line border around the text and disable grammar checks  That way i achieved the line braking of eclipse so I don t have to do anything more   Hope I helped

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I m using Easy Code Formatter  It s also an Office add-in  It allows you to select the coding style   and has a quick formatting button  Pretty neat

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I ve read and tried all the posts and I would like to give an overview of all the solutions  The best way is depending on your requirements  If there are only short snippets that are not longer than a page then go with Insert Object  If the code is longer than one page go with RTF Formatting   Insert Textbox   No page break possible Spell check available Formatting can be ruined very quickly In a document with thousands of pages Word 2016 started to make problems  At some point Word always crashed while trying to insert a new Textbox    Insert Object   Document   No page break possible No spell check Formatting and content stays safe   RTF Formatting   Page breaks possible Spell check available Annoying line numbers when copying the code again from word Online  Planet2b ca http   www planetb ca syntax-highlight-word Offline  Highlight http   www andre-simon de doku highlight highlight php   Or any other wysiwyg-editor online tool library to style the code   Some plug-ins add-ons  All down or doesn t work anymore

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The best presentation for code in documents is in a fixed-width font  as it should appear in an IDE   with either a faint  shaded background or a light border to distinguish the block from other text

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I m using Word 2010 and I like copying and paste from a github gist  Just remember to keep source formatting   I then change the font to DejaVu Sans Mono   You can opt to copy with or without the numbering

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This is the simplest approach I follow  Consider I want to paste java code    I paste the code here so that spaces  tabs and flower brackets are neatly formated http   www tutorialspoint com online java formatter htm Then I paste the code got from step 1 here so that the colors  fonts are added to the code http   markup su highlighter  Then paste the preview code got from step 2 to the MS word  Finally it will look like this

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You can paste your code into LINQPad  Then copy from LINQPad into MS Word  LINQPad supports following programming languages  C   VB  SQL  ESQL and F

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Here is the best way  for me  to add code inside word    go to Insert tab  Text section  click object button  it s on the right   choose OpenDocument Text which will open a new embedded word document copy and paste your code from Visual Studio   Eclipse inside this embedded word page save and close   The result looks very nice  Here are the advantages of this method    the code keeps its original layout and colors the code is separated from the rest of the document  as if it was a picture or a chart spelling errors won t be highlighted in the code  this is cool      And it takes only few seconds

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You can use VS code to keep code format and highlighting  Directly copy and paste code from VS

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In my experience copy-paste from eclipse and Notepad   works directly with word   For some reason I had a problem with a file that didn t preserve coloring  I made a new  java file  copy-paste code to that  then copy-paste to word and it worked     As the other guys said  create a new paragraph style  What I do is use mono-spaced font like courier new  small size close to 8px for fonts  single spaced with no space between paragraphs  make tab stops small  0 5cm 1cm    5cm   put a simple line border around the text and disable grammar checks  That way i achieved the line braking of eclipse so I don t have to do anything more   Hope I helped

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Hilite doesn t seem to be mentioned yet in the answers  so  Hilite supports lots of languages  20    can be used online also via API  and is on Github  so you can clone  modify  and run it on your own if you don t trust the online service    The online version can also be adjusted to one s needs via CSS rules   I just found it some minutes ago since I needed a tool for copying xQuery into Word  but couldn t find a proper tool for doing so  The source program is baseX and for some reason  its formatting could not be transmitted to Word  also not via Keep format etc  when pasting   Also  many of the given answers are now  i e  06 2019  not working anymore or do not support xQuery  Hilite  however  did the job quite well    Edit  a code block is not part of the result  unfortunatelly  just the highlighting  Nevertheless  it s better than nothing and adjusting the result by adding a block around is still less work than formating every single line by hand

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Try defining a style called  code  and make it use a small fixed width font  it should look better then   Use CTRL SPACEBAR to reset style

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I type my code in Visual Studio  and then copy-paste into word  it preserves the colors

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A web site for coloration with lots of languages   http   hilite me   You can host one yourself since it is open source  The code is on github

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The best presentation for code in documents is in a fixed-width font  as it should appear in an IDE   with either a faint  shaded background or a light border to distinguish the block from other text

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Simplest solution  for me atleast  is to paste your code into the document  highlight it  then navigate to   home -  styles -   lt  lt  click drop down arrow by styles    -  code  This has the advantage that the code is now searchable within the document  unlike gargamel s solution   as well as being able to format code that is multiple pages

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Use a monospaced font like Lucida Console  which comes with Windows   If you cut paste from Visual Studio or something that supports syntax highlighting  you can often preserve the colour scheme of the syntax highlighter

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If you are using Intellij IDEA  just copy the code from the IDE and paste it in the word document

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If you are using Intellij IDEA  just copy the code from the IDE and paste it in the word document

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Just paste your code in MS Words  select it -  then right click -  Numbering  In this case MS Word will interpret your code as marker numbered list   Here is the screens    Screen1   Screen2

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If you are using Sublime Text  you can copy the code from Sublime to MS Word preserving the syntax highlighting     Install the package called SublimeHighlight   In Sublime  using your cursor  select the code you want to copy  right click it  select  copy as rtf   and paste into MS Word

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I m using Word 2010 and I like copying and paste from a github gist  Just remember to keep source formatting   I then change the font to DejaVu Sans Mono   You can opt to copy with or without the numbering

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If you are using Android Studio  you can simply copy and paste  and the code aspect is going to be preserved and the colors as well  Simple enough

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If you are using Android Studio  you can simply copy and paste  and the code aspect is going to be preserved and the colors as well  Simple enough

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Try defining a style called  code  and make it use a small fixed width font  it should look better then   Use CTRL SPACEBAR to reset style

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The best presentation for code in documents is in a fixed-width font  as it should appear in an IDE   with either a faint  shaded background or a light border to distinguish the block from other text

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The best way what I found is by using the table     Create a table with 1x1  Then copy the code and paste it  If you re using the desktop app then it will inherit the code editor theme color and paste it accordingly  else you can change the table style to any colour

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From Powershell ISE copy and paste to Word  Same with Visual Studio

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The best way what I found is by using the table     Create a table with 1x1  Then copy the code and paste it  If you re using the desktop app then it will inherit the code editor theme color and paste it accordingly  else you can change the table style to any colour

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Simply right click and paste using the  Keep Source Formatting  option  I do this almost everyday to document my work  Further  you can set the  default paste  for pasting from various soures in File Options Advanced Cut CopyPaste  Also useful  enable  Show paste options  in the same section of Word Options   Note that all of the text properties from your Code Editor s theme  colors  fonts  etc   will be added to the Stylesheet in your Word doc  so I would recommend that you not make any changes directly to the pasted text as that will add clutter to your stylesheet and subsequent pastes will not match   It will be to your great advantage to do a quick study on using  Styles  in Word  which are actually CSS   They are very powerful  Using Word s Stylesheet you can make global changes to the pasted text  but it will probably cause subsequent pasted text to add new styles

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In case you re like me and are too lazy or in a hurry and don t want to download additional software  you can use http   markup su highlighter   It s very straight forward and supports several highlight themes and many programming languages  In my case I was using Visual Studio Code  which doesn t allow copying with format due to CSS involved in styling  as reported here    Copy the text from the Preview box and then in Word go to Insert -  Textbox  paste the Preview from the website  highlight all the text  and then disable spell checking for that textbox   This is what the code looks like finally

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There really isn t a clean way to do it  and it could still look fishy based on your exact style settings   What you could try to do is to first run a code-to-HTML conversion  there are many programs that do that   and then try to open up the HTML file with word  that might hopefully provide you with the formatted and pretty code  and then copy and paste it into your document

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Simplest solution  for me atleast  is to paste your code into the document  highlight it  then navigate to   home -  styles -   lt  lt  click drop down arrow by styles    -  code  This has the advantage that the code is now searchable within the document  unlike gargamel s solution   as well as being able to format code that is multiple pages

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I was also looking for it and ended up creating something for my code display  Here s a good way    Create a rectangular form and place your text inside  Change the font to Consolas and size  10  Change the text font to gray near-black  gray 25   darker 75   Use darker colors to highlight your text if needed and choose one to be the contour

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You can use VS code to keep code format and highlighting  Directly copy and paste code from VS

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Vim has a nifty feature that converts code to HTML format preserving syntax highlighting  font style  background color and even line numbers  Run  TOhtml and vim creates a new buffer containing html markup   Next  open this html file in a web browser and copy paste whatever it rendered to Word  Vim tips wiki has more information

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Here is the best way  for me  to add code inside word    go to Insert tab  Text section  click object button  it s on the right   choose OpenDocument Text which will open a new embedded word document copy and paste your code from Visual Studio   Eclipse inside this embedded word page save and close   The result looks very nice  Here are the advantages of this method    the code keeps its original layout and colors the code is separated from the rest of the document  as if it was a picture or a chart spelling errors won t be highlighted in the code  this is cool      And it takes only few seconds

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A quick approach I use is to use the Snipping Tool  already built in Microsoft tool  with stack overflow s preview   Once I input my code into an Ask Question box  I then capture the preview and insert it into the MS Word document as a picture     This above is the result  a picture   not SO code   you can put into word   No worries about formatting  grammar checks  or downloading new software or  add-ins

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There really isn t a clean way to do it  and it could still look fishy based on your exact style settings   What you could try to do is to first run a code-to-HTML conversion  there are many programs that do that   and then try to open up the HTML file with word  that might hopefully provide you with the formatted and pretty code  and then copy and paste it into your document

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After reading a lot of related answers  I came across my own solution  which for me is the most suitable one   Result looks like this    As you can see  it is the same syntax highlighting like on Stack Overflow which is quite awesome   Steps to reproduce   on Stack Overflow   Goto Ask Question  preferably with Chrome  Paste Code and add a language tag  e g  Java  to get syntax hightlighting Copy code from preview   in Word   Insert   Table   1x1 Paste code Table Design   Borders   No Border Select code   Edit   Find   Replace Search Document  p  Paragraph Mark  Replace With  l  Manual Line Break   This is required to remove the gaps between some lines  Select code again   Review   Language   check  Do not check spelling or grammar  Finally add a caption using References   Insert Caption   New Label   name it  Listing  or sth   Sample code thanks to this guy

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When I ve done this  I ve made extensive use of styles  It helps a lot   What I do is create a paragraph style  perhaps called  Code Example  or something like that  which uses a monospaced font  carefully chosen tabs  a very light grey background  a thin black border above and below  that helps visibility a lot  and with spelling turned off  I also make sure that inter-line and inter-paragraph spacing are set right  I then create additional character styles on top  e g    Comment    String    Keyword    Function Name Decl    Variable Name Decl   which I layer on top  those set the color and whether the text is bold italic  It s then pretty simple to go through and mark up a pasted example as being code and have it come out looking really good  and this is works well for short snippets  Long chunks of code probably should not normally be in something that s going to go on a dead tree   -   An advantage of doing it this way is that it is easy to adapt to whatever code you re doing  you don t have to rely on some IDE to figure out whatever is going on for you   The main problem  Printed pages typically aren t as wide as editor windows so wrapping will suck

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Use a monospaced font like Lucida Console  which comes with Windows   If you cut paste from Visual Studio or something that supports syntax highlighting  you can often preserve the colour scheme of the syntax highlighter

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When I ve done this  I ve made extensive use of styles  It helps a lot   What I do is create a paragraph style  perhaps called  Code Example  or something like that  which uses a monospaced font  carefully chosen tabs  a very light grey background  a thin black border above and below  that helps visibility a lot  and with spelling turned off  I also make sure that inter-line and inter-paragraph spacing are set right  I then create additional character styles on top  e g    Comment    String    Keyword    Function Name Decl    Variable Name Decl   which I layer on top  those set the color and whether the text is bold italic  It s then pretty simple to go through and mark up a pasted example as being code and have it come out looking really good  and this is works well for short snippets  Long chunks of code probably should not normally be in something that s going to go on a dead tree   -   An advantage of doing it this way is that it is easy to adapt to whatever code you re doing  you don t have to rely on some IDE to figure out whatever is going on for you   The main problem  Printed pages typically aren t as wide as editor windows so wrapping will suck

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You can just use PlanetB  http   planetb ca syntax-highlight-word  Copy and Past  choose the language and enjoy the result

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You can also use SciTE to paste code if you don t want to install heavy IDEs and then download plugins for all the code you re making  Simply choose your language from the language menu  type your code  high-light code  select Edit- Copy as RTF  paste into Word with formatting  default paste    SciTE supports the following languages but probably has support for others  Abaqus   Ada  ANS 1 MIB definition files   APDL  Assembler  NASM  MASM   Asymptote   AutoIt   Avenue   Batch files  MS-DOS   Baan   Bash   BlitzBasic   Bullant   C C   C   Clarion  cmake   conf  Apache   CSound  CSS   D  diff files   E-Script   Eiffel   Erlang   Flagship  Clipper   XBase   Flash  ActionScript   Fortran   Forth   GAP   Gettext  Haskell  HTML   HTML with embedded JavaScript  VBScript  PHP and ASP   Gui4Cli   IDL - both MSIDL and XPIDL   INI  properties  and similar  InnoSetup   Java   JavaScript   LISP   LOT   Lout   Lua   Make  Matlab   Metapost   MMIXAL  MSSQL  nnCron  NSIS   Objective Caml   Opal  Octave   Pascal Delphi   Perl  most of it except for some ambiguous cases   PL M   Progress   PostScript   POV-Ray   PowerBasic   PowerShell   PureBasic   Python   R   Rebol   Ruby   Scheme   scriptol   Specman E   Spice  Smalltalk  SQL and PLSQL  TADS3   TeX and LaTeX  Tcl Tk   VB and VBScript   Verilog   VHDL   XML   YAML

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Hilite doesn t seem to be mentioned yet in the answers  so  Hilite supports lots of languages  20    can be used online also via API  and is on Github  so you can clone  modify  and run it on your own if you don t trust the online service    The online version can also be adjusted to one s needs via CSS rules   I just found it some minutes ago since I needed a tool for copying xQuery into Word  but couldn t find a proper tool for doing so  The source program is baseX and for some reason  its formatting could not be transmitted to Word  also not via Keep format etc  when pasting   Also  many of the given answers are now  i e  06 2019  not working anymore or do not support xQuery  Hilite  however  did the job quite well    Edit  a code block is not part of the result  unfortunatelly  just the highlighting  Nevertheless  it s better than nothing and adjusting the result by adding a block around is still less work than formating every single line by hand

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Ok  this is weird  but to address the background color issue I paste in the text as normal  select the whole block  click on the highlighter tool to highlight  even if the highlight is set to  No Color    and then I can style the text block without the background color of the text remaining white   I am using VS 11 and Word 2010  but the problem has been around for a long time  see http   www visualstudiodev com visual-studio-setup-installation copypaste-code-from-vs-1305 shtml

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In case you re like me and are too lazy or in a hurry and don t want to download additional software  you can use http   markup su highlighter   It s very straight forward and supports several highlight themes and many programming languages  In my case I was using Visual Studio Code  which doesn t allow copying with format due to CSS involved in styling  as reported here    Copy the text from the Preview box and then in Word go to Insert -  Textbox  paste the Preview from the website  highlight all the text  and then disable spell checking for that textbox   This is what the code looks like finally

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There really isn t a clean way to do it  and it could still look fishy based on your exact style settings   What you could try to do is to first run a code-to-HTML conversion  there are many programs that do that   and then try to open up the HTML file with word  that might hopefully provide you with the formatted and pretty code  and then copy and paste it into your document

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A quick approach I use is to use the Snipping Tool  already built in Microsoft tool  with stack overflow s preview   Once I input my code into an Ask Question box  I then capture the preview and insert it into the MS Word document as a picture     This above is the result  a picture   not SO code   you can put into word   No worries about formatting  grammar checks  or downloading new software or  add-ins

[ms-word] How do you display code snippets in MS Word preserving format and syntax highlighting?

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