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Paste Options-Changing Defaults
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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/ |
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