To paste as "Unformatted Text" in Word 2007, click Home tab | Paste | Paste
Special, choose "Unformatted Text" and click OK. Or you can use the
following macro:
Sub PasteUnformatted()
On Error Resume Next
Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText
End Sub
Attach it to a button and/or assign a keyboard shortcut to it.
For more, see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"MyHandsy" wrote in message
...
I am (somewhat) sure someone within Microsoft is concerned about the
usability of Office. In particular, I am referring to the Word component.
As
it turns out, Word is quite bad at making specially formatted items look
normal, and it is almost never the case that I even wanted it to try.
So, why do you people think it's OK to bury the "past special" option? In
order to paste something as simply text, I have to get it into the
clipboard
and then go back to word (keystroke) select the past menu (mouse movement
and
click) select paste special (mouse movement and click) select "unformatted
text" (mouse movement and click) then click "ok" (mouse movement and
click).
Not acceptable. I am surprised you haven't been sued for causing CTDs for
this feature alone. Four mouse movements, four clicks, and a keystroke is
very bad for something that is routinely used.
On the bright side, it is far faster for me to open notepad (mouse
movement
and click), paste (keystroke) select all (keystroke) and copy (keystroke),
and go back to Word and paste (keystroke). One mouse movement and four
(consecutive) keystrokes... hundreds of dollars for the office suite and I
have to rely on notepad to launder my clipboard items?
Whatever data you've collected suggesting that it's better to make it
difficult to paste just the text is just wrong. There is absolutely no
excuse
for a "paste as plain text" option to be missing from the context menu in
Word. If there is a religious war going on inside Microsoft preventing
this
from happening, please fire a lot of people.
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