Re: Pasting text without attributes/formatting

Thanks Stefan.

This is exactly the behavoiur I need. Having to use Paste Special to paste
formatted text is fine.

The only problem is it'll only work in Word. What I really need is to
change the default behaviour of pasting in Windows so it does this in any
program that has the capability to paste formatted text .

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Jonathan Finney

"Stefan Blom" <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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