Anyway to make Microsoft Word always paste unformatted text?

[aphex]

At my job i have to cut and paste an array of material into documents that I am working on. Rather than hit paste and get the formatting of the copied text, i always do Edit/Paste Special/Unformatted Text so that its easier to work with.

Is there anyway to make that a default option so i can use CTRL-V again?

 

[Thyme]

This is one of the 12,000 UI problems with Office that drive me crazy. Fortunately, there is workaround for this particular glaring UI problem.

Use Alt-F11 to make a macro in normal.dat
Public sub pastePlain()
Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText
end sub

Then go to tools...customize...keyboard...macros...pastePlain and assign a shortcut like Control-Shift-V.

Unfortunately, there is no way to do this in Outlook or and in Excel, I believe it will only work on a document level.

 

[Zebo]

Ya download openoffice or use office 97.😛

 

[StevenYoo]

i always paste into notepad first, then transfer that into Word.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: StevenYoo
i always paste into notepad first, then transfer that into Word.

That has worked for me for at least the past10 years. Word also has a SAVE AS text format.

 

[RaiderJ]

Originally posted by: StevenYoo
i always paste into notepad first, then transfer that into Word.

 

[leeland]

Originally posted by: StevenYoo
i always paste into notepad first, then transfer that into Word.

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Smart Man...this works like a dream...do it all the time...

 

[BFG10K]

Same here.

 

[Barfo]

I use the notepad method as well, MS should've made it easy anyway, oh well, maybe for Office 2010.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Paste text without the formatting into a Word document