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You can download a command reference (it's an Excel sheet) from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en.
That's where I got the info.

There's also an online version at
http://office.microsoft.com/assistan...HA100744321033

There's also a downloadable add-in at
http://www.officelabs.com:80/project...s/default.aspx that
allows you to search for commands and find out where they are in Word 2007.

There's also the Get Started tab add-in (which I confess I haven't tried
yet) at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"bjoshua" wrote in message
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Thanks so much. No doubt, I'd have never found it!!

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Home | Clipboard | Paste | Paste Special...

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"bjoshua" wrote in message
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Very helpful, however I have no clue where "Paste Special" can be
found.
And
I'm really tired of hunting through 700 options in Word 2007 to find
the
very
few things I need to do with it.

Too bad they don't make something more simple and basic. I'm willing
to
bet
that the number of users who actually need all the superfluous crud
included
in Word is maybe 10% of everyone who has it. People buy it because
over
the
years, before it became so cumbersome, so many folks used it that now
almost
everyone demands Word formatted communications. So you're trapped,
like
it
or not.

But this is just me, venting frustration. Thanks for the informative
response.

"Peter A" wrote:

In article ,
says...
never heard of that before. but, when pasting text from multiple
sources, i
do this (not the best solution, but one that you can do w/o much
tech
knowledge)

Copy the text from your source (CTRL+C)
Open Notepad
Paste into notepad (CTRL+V)
Select what you just pasted, in notepad (CTRL+A)
Copy from notepad (CTRL+C)
Paste into Word (CTRL+V)

Notepad strips all formatting from text, so if you do that, when you
paste
into word you'll just get the words, and none of the annoying
formatting
changes that they have with them


Unnecessary effort - just choose Paste Special then Unformatted Text
in
Word and you get the same result.

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Peter Aitken
Author, MS Word for Medical and Technical Writers
www.tech-word.com