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You need to change the paste special
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. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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