It occurred to me the other day how often I was needing to perform a ‘Paste Special’ operation to ensure the format of the pasted text was not carried across. I did a little straw-poll and found that it was most of the time.
I’d select ‘Home’ in the ribbon, drop down ‘Paste’ and select ‘Paste Special’. Latterly I found out about the ctl-alt-v shortcut, but I still found it annoying that having to do this.
So I searched around, and found exactly what I wanted on Roel van Lisdonk’s Blog. Roel assures us that this works in Microsoft Word 2010; I’ve tried it with 2007 and it also works.
We can configure Word to ignore formatting by changing some options. Start by clicking on the Office Button:
Then click the ‘Word Options’ button. When the dialog loads, click on ‘Advanced’ in the left pane:
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The section you want is ‘Cut, copy and paste’
I changed the option ‘Pasting from other programs’ to ‘Keep Text Only’, but you are free to play around with these as you see fit.
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