[Peter T. Daniels]

When you copy something from a web site, use Paste Special and not
Ctrl-V, and the only annoying thing from the web page's formatting
that will come through is the paragraph breaks, often after every
line.

You can assign a keyboard shortcut (does Ctrl-Shift-V do anything for
you now?) and/or put its icon on your QAT.

On Feb 9, 9:49*am, "gordo" wrote:
"Stefan Blom" *wrote in ...
"Stefan Blom" *wrote in ...

What you can't do, however, is change the default color that *Word*
applies if you click the Font Color button on the Home tab.

That is what I was afraid of. Oh well. The vast majority of my use of the
Font Color button is changing a font to black. The text is mostly from
copying something from web sites.

Thanks for clearing this up for me.

Gordo

In other words, you will have to click the arrow (so that the drop down menu
displays) and then pick the color you want.

Obviously, modifying the document defaults (or a style) will be a lot
easier.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

[Stefan Blom[_3_]]

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
...

When you copy something from a web site, use Paste Special [---]

Or you could make use of a macro to ensure that you always paste in plain
text format:

Sub PastePlainTextOnly()
On Error Resume Next
Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText
End Sub

Running the macro will be easy if you assign it to a QAT button and/or
associate it with a keyboard shortcut. For more, see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP