Point 1: WARNING! Don't feed the trolls! (Although if you're going to do it,
do it well - which you have. ;-P)
Point 2: Suzanne is nearly right; most of the people who post here do not
work for MSFT, and if a Softie does post, you'll see [MSFT] after their name.
In addition, I'm pretty sure almost nobody from MSFT apart from the
SPAM-fighters ever read these posts. However, some of us do have the ability
to provide feedback to MSFT, so maybe your efforts won't be entirely wasted.
Point 3: In spite of the somewhat abrasive and aggressive tone of your post
(which I certainly understand and can almost agree with), the point you make
about how hard it is to do something simple like pasting unformatted text is
a good one. I constantly struggle with the way this process is handled in
Word, and although there are workarounds, I think it would be a great idea if
"Paste Special" were available on the context menu. At the very least, it
would be most helpful if the context menu could be customised to some degree
so that some of the more commonly used actions - like "Paste Special" amongst
others - could be added to it for those users who would like it there.
Unfortunately, I'm not one of those who has the ear of MSFT, so there's
probably not much I can do to help make this happen.
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Cheers!
Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP
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"MyHandsy" wrote:
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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