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Thanks. I have tried to create a macro and keyboard shortcut (Command V) to paste plain text, yet does not seem to work:

1. Select "Tools/Macro/Macros". Macro Name: PasteUnformatted

2. Create.

3. Paste into the "Normal - NewMacros (Code)" window:

Sub PasteUnformatted()
Selection.PasteSpecial Link:=False, DataType:=wdPasteText,
Placement:= _
wdInLine, DisplayAsIcon:=False
End Sub

4. Close the "Normal - NewMacros (Code)" window.

5. Select "Tools/Customize/Customize Keyboards".

6. Select Categories: Macros.

7. Select Macros: PasteUnformatted

8. Place cursor on "Press new shortcut key" and type:

Command V

9. Click "Assign". Click "OK".

Now, if I paste something into Word using:

Command V

it does paste it formatted and not unformatted as I expected.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

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On 2007-04-06 12:19:01 +0200, Elliott Roper <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> said:

In article <2007040611205416807-nospam@nospamcom>, Tony
<nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
Last but not least, and a bit off-topic BUT RELATED TO THE ABOVE ISSUE,
there is a single feature that I would love to see in Word 2008: copy
and paste without style with a one-click menu for it, a one-click
button on toolbar for it and --most importantly-- a simple keyboard
command for it. For instance (as Eudora does):

Copy unformatted (plain) text: Shift Command C
Paste unformatted (plain) text: Shift Command V

We may use the latter hundreds of times each single day and it is
really tedious to go trough the "Edit/Paste Special/Unformatted
Text/OK" each time. Because the ³Paste Options² contextual popup
clipboard icon to select "Keep Text Only" does not show many times when
you paste something in a Word document. That seems a flaw-bug of Word
to me, but that is what happens.

Good Grief Charlie Brown! You do paste unformatted "hundreds of times
each single day" and you have never written/recorded a macro and
assigned a keyboard shortcut for paste unformatted?

Here's mine:
Sub PasteUnformatted()
Selection.PasteSpecial Link:=False, DataType:=wdPasteText,
Placement:= _
wdInLine, DisplayAsIcon:=False
End Sub

Stick it in normal. Better yet, if you have a team of editors, make it
part of a global template in everybody's startup.

Try the help. If all else fails, ask again, or demand that MacBU 'fixes
it'.


.

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