If you are using Word 2002/2003 you should see a smart tag which
allows you to select the desired format of the pasted text. For more,
see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...ionsWorks.html.

Alternatively, you can click Paste Special on the Edit menu, and
choose to paste as "Unformatted text". An equivalent method is to use
the following macro (useful if you need to paste in text format a
lot):

Sub PasteAsText()
On Error Resume Next
Selection.PasteSpecial datatype:=wdPasteText
End Sub

For installation instructions, see
http://gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Xane" wrote in message
...
If you paste text into a Word document, Word always uses this
"useful"
feature of retaining the original font and text characteristics.
This is
terribly annoying to me to be honest, because 99 out of a hundred
times, I
just want to paste the text into the document with the document's
font face,
colour etc intact. (so not the original font I copied the text in
from, for
example, a webpage.)

These days, I just paste the text in a notepad document and then
paste that
into word, but there has to be a simple switch I can flick somewhere
to just
preserve the document font at all times when pasting. Anyone know
where that
is?