When I paste text from one Word document into another (where the two
documents use different fonts, etc.), a clipboard icon appears near the
pasted material which includes a dropdown menu for choosing whether the
pasted material will maintain the same formatting as the source document or
use the formatting of the destination document. The default choice is to
maintain the formatting of the source document. Since I always want to
adopt the formatting of the destination document, this means continually
mousing to the dropdown and choosing that option.

is there any way to change the default, so that all pasted material adopts
the formatting of the destination document?

Thanks,
GLMore

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:12:27 GMT, "GLMoore"
wrote:

When I paste text from one Word document into another (where the two
documents use different fonts, etc.), a clipboard icon appears near the
pasted material which includes a dropdown menu for choosing whether the
pasted material will maintain the same formatting as the source document or
use the formatting of the destination document. The default choice is to
maintain the formatting of the source document. Since I always want to
adopt the formatting of the destination document, this means continually
mousing to the dropdown and choosing that option.

is there any way to change the default, so that all pasted material adopts
the formatting of the destination document?

Thanks,
GLMore


There isn't any way to change that default. What you can do is write a
small macro that always pastes with the destination formatting, and
assign it to a toolbar button, a keyboard shortcut, and/or a
right-click menu item. See
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...f09911e7cf4762
for the macro and some discussion.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

Jay, thanks for your response ... I checked the link and it gives a way to
change the Paste Special to paste text unformatted; is there some change
that can be made to that macro so that it will paste using the destination
document format, or is unformatted the best that can be done in the
circumstances?

I (and several other people in my office) appreciate your help with this.

GLMore


"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:12:27 GMT, "GLMoore"
wrote:

When I paste text from one Word document into another (where the two
documents use different fonts, etc.), a clipboard icon appears near the
pasted material which includes a dropdown menu for choosing whether the
pasted material will maintain the same formatting as the source document
or
use the formatting of the destination document. The default choice is to
maintain the formatting of the source document. Since I always want to
adopt the formatting of the destination document, this means continually
mousing to the dropdown and choosing that option.

is there any way to change the default, so that all pasted material adopts
the formatting of the destination document?

Thanks,
GLMore


There isn't any way to change that default. What you can do is write a
small macro that always pastes with the destination formatting, and
assign it to a toolbar button, a keyboard shortcut, and/or a
right-click menu item. See
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...f09911e7cf4762
for the macro and some discussion.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

Sorry, I'm not aware of anything that can be done from VBA to paste with
destination format. When the Paste Options icon was introduced, Microsoft
didn't provide any "knobs" to twist in VBA to automate it. There are several
situations like that.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

GLMoore wrote:
Jay, thanks for your response ... I checked the link and it gives a
way to change the Paste Special to paste text unformatted; is there
some change that can be made to that macro so that it will paste
using the destination document format, or is unformatted the best
that can be done in the circumstances?

I (and several other people in my office) appreciate your help with
this.

GLMore


"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:12:27 GMT, "GLMoore"
wrote:

When I paste text from one Word document into another (where the two
documents use different fonts, etc.), a clipboard icon appears near
the pasted material which includes a dropdown menu for choosing
whether the pasted material will maintain the same formatting as
the source document or
use the formatting of the destination document. The default choice
is to maintain the formatting of the source document. Since I
always want to adopt the formatting of the destination document,
this means continually mousing to the dropdown and choosing that
option.

is there any way to change the default, so that all pasted material
adopts the formatting of the destination document?

Thanks,
GLMore


There isn't any way to change that default. What you can do is write
a small macro that always pastes with the destination formatting, and
assign it to a toolbar button, a keyboard shortcut, and/or a
right-click menu item. See

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...f09911e7cf4762
for the macro and some discussion.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

It made it into MacWord 2004, because I have a macro for
PasteMatchDestinationFormatting, so it should be coming in WinWord, I would
assume? Were the paste options introduced in Word 2002 or Word 2003?

On 2/16/05 7:04 AM, "Jay Freedman" wrote:

Sorry, I'm not aware of anything that can be done from VBA to paste with
destination format. When the Paste Options icon was introduced, Microsoft
didn't provide any "knobs" to twist in VBA to automate it. There are several
situations like that.

--
Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word
Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/
MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/
What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/