Re: Pasting text without attributes/formatting

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As far as I know, there is no way to alter the default behavior of the
paste command in Windows. However, in Word, you can use a macro to
always paste as unformatted text:

Sub PasteAsUnformatted()
On Error Resume Next
Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText
End Sub

Store the macro in normal.dot and it will be available for all
documents. You can use Tools>Customize to add it to a toolbar button
for easy access. See http://gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

If you name the macro EditPaste (instead of PasteAsUnformatted), it
will replace the built-in paste command, which makes it even easier to
use, but this may not be what you want: For example, when pasting a
table in Word, it will be converted to text. You'd have to use Paste
Special to paste as a table.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Jonathan Finney" wrote:
> When I paste text in an Office document such as Word or Excel (or
anywhere
> text attributes are supporetd), the text always retains the
attributes of
> the source document unless I use Paste Special.
>
> It seems to me that I hardly ever want to paste in this way. I
normally
> want to have the text adopt the attributes of the destination
document and
> it's very frustrating to have to use Paste Special, then select
Plain Text,
> then click OK every time I want to paste in this way rather than
just
> hitting Ctrl. V.
>
> It's particularly annoying when copying and pasting between messages
in
> Outlook as gives unpredictable results that are rarely what I want.
And, of
> course, Outlook
> doesn't have a Paste Special option which means that to paste just
the text,
> I have to open Notepad, paste in the text, copy it again, then paste
it
> where I want it.
>
> I guess I can work around the problem and create special short-cuts,
but I'd
> need to do this in every program and this is not really a workable
solution.
> Is it not possible to have the default paste action for all Windows
programs
> paste just the text without the attributes? Maybe a registry edit?
>
> Does anybody know why this is the default behaviour? I find it
difficult to
> believe that the way I work is different to anybody else and can't
imagine
> why this is the default behaviour.
>
> --
>
> Jonathan Finney
>
> Finney
>
>





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