This is one of the most annoying things about Word that I encounter over and
over. Say I paste a Supreme Court quote from WestLaw (a web site) into a
paper I'm writing in Word. It upsets me when the inserted quote has the
formatting of the web site, not my paper. 99.9% percent of the time, if I
paste into a Word document I want it to match the body of my paper. I'm sure
this is true for most people. Is there any way I can make Word do the
sensible thing by default?

Edit | Paste Special | As unformatted text. If you have Word 2002 or 2003,
you can select the paste format using the Paste Options button.

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"Ryan" wrote in message
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This is one of the most annoying things about Word that I encounter over
and
over. Say I paste a Supreme Court quote from WestLaw (a web site) into a
paper I'm writing in Word. It upsets me when the inserted quote has the
formatting of the web site, not my paper. 99.9% percent of the time, if I
paste into a Word document I want it to match the body of my paper. I'm
sure
this is true for most people. Is there any way I can make Word do the
sensible thing by default?

Yep. Use Edit - Paste Special - Paste Unformatted. Or, if you'd like it as a
keystroke, take a look he

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=128

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"Ryan" wrote in message
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This is one of the most annoying things about Word that I encounter over
and
over. Say I paste a Supreme Court quote from WestLaw (a web site) into a
paper I'm writing in Word. It upsets me when the inserted quote has the
formatting of the web site, not my paper. 99.9% percent of the time, if I
paste into a Word document I want it to match the body of my paper. I'm
sure
this is true for most people. Is there any way I can make Word do the
sensible thing by default?