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Pasting text without attributes/formatting
When I paste text in an Office document such as Word or Excel (or anywhere
text attributes are supporetd), the text always retains the attributes of the source document unless I use Paste Special. It seems to me that I hardly ever want to paste in this way. I normally want to have the text adopt the attributes of the destination document and it's very frustrating to have to use Paste Special, then select Plain Text, then click OK every time I want to paste in this way rather than just hitting Ctrl. V. It's particularly annoying when copying and pasting between messages in Outlook as gives unpredictable results that are rarely what I want. And, of course, Outlook doesn't have a Paste Special option which means that to paste just the text, I have to open Notepad, paste in the text, copy it again, then paste it where I want it. I guess I can work around the problem and create special short-cuts, but I'd need to do this in every program and this is not really a workable solution. Is it not possible to have the default paste action for all Windows programs paste just the text without the attributes? Maybe a registry edit? Does anybody know why this is the default behaviour? I find it difficult to believe that the way I work is different to anybody else and can't imagine why this is the default behaviour. -- Jonathan Finney Finney |
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As far as I know, there is no way to alter the default behavior of the
paste command in Windows. However, in Word, you can use a macro to always paste as unformatted text: Sub PasteAsUnformatted() On Error Resume Next Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText End Sub Store the macro in normal.dot and it will be available for all documents. You can use ToolsCustomize to add it to a toolbar button for easy access. See http://gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm If you name the macro EditPaste (instead of PasteAsUnformatted), it will replace the built-in paste command, which makes it even easier to use, but this may not be what you want: For example, when pasting a table in Word, it will be converted to text. You'd have to use Paste Special to paste as a table. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Jonathan Finney" wrote: When I paste text in an Office document such as Word or Excel (or anywhere text attributes are supporetd), the text always retains the attributes of the source document unless I use Paste Special. It seems to me that I hardly ever want to paste in this way. I normally want to have the text adopt the attributes of the destination document and it's very frustrating to have to use Paste Special, then select Plain Text, then click OK every time I want to paste in this way rather than just hitting Ctrl. V. It's particularly annoying when copying and pasting between messages in Outlook as gives unpredictable results that are rarely what I want. And, of course, Outlook doesn't have a Paste Special option which means that to paste just the text, I have to open Notepad, paste in the text, copy it again, then paste it where I want it. I guess I can work around the problem and create special short-cuts, but I'd need to do this in every program and this is not really a workable solution. Is it not possible to have the default paste action for all Windows programs paste just the text without the attributes? Maybe a registry edit? Does anybody know why this is the default behaviour? I find it difficult to believe that the way I work is different to anybody else and can't imagine why this is the default behaviour. -- Jonathan Finney Finney |
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Thanks Stefan.
This is exactly the behavoiur I need. Having to use Paste Special to paste formatted text is fine. The only problem is it'll only work in Word. What I really need is to change the default behaviour of pasting in Windows so it does this in any program that has the capability to paste formatted text . -- Jonathan Finney "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... As far as I know, there is no way to alter the default behavior of the paste command in Windows. However, in Word, you can use a macro to always paste as unformatted text: Sub PasteAsUnformatted() On Error Resume Next Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText End Sub Store the macro in normal.dot and it will be available for all documents. You can use ToolsCustomize to add it to a toolbar button for easy access. See http://gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm If you name the macro EditPaste (instead of PasteAsUnformatted), it will replace the built-in paste command, which makes it even easier to use, but this may not be what you want: For example, when pasting a table in Word, it will be converted to text. You'd have to use Paste Special to paste as a table. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Jonathan Finney" wrote: When I paste text in an Office document such as Word or Excel (or anywhere text attributes are supporetd), the text always retains the attributes of the source document unless I use Paste Special. It seems to me that I hardly ever want to paste in this way. I normally want to have the text adopt the attributes of the destination document and it's very frustrating to have to use Paste Special, then select Plain Text, then click OK every time I want to paste in this way rather than just hitting Ctrl. V. It's particularly annoying when copying and pasting between messages in Outlook as gives unpredictable results that are rarely what I want. And, of course, Outlook doesn't have a Paste Special option which means that to paste just the text, I have to open Notepad, paste in the text, copy it again, then paste it where I want it. I guess I can work around the problem and create special short-cuts, but I'd need to do this in every program and this is not really a workable solution. Is it not possible to have the default paste action for all Windows programs paste just the text without the attributes? Maybe a registry edit? Does anybody know why this is the default behaviour? I find it difficult to believe that the way I work is different to anybody else and can't imagine why this is the default behaviour. -- Jonathan Finney Finney |
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