That should be all you need to do.Prasad Prakash Gavkar56 / Shivshakti Society, B/h. Select the template to save this change to (Normal.dot is the default), then click Assign. In fact, we always copy the formatting and other info, you decide what you want to paste. Mariner Write does support the copying and pasting of formats. To assign Alt+Shift+V instead, click in the Press New Shortcut Key field and press that new key combination. I am used to Words (and others) shift+Cmd+C copy format feature. The Current Keys box says that Ctrl+Shift+V is assigned to it.ĥ. Select PasteFormat from the Commands list (you can only see it after you’ve selected Edit in the Categories list). To assign Alt+Shift+V to PasteFormat (and therefore unassign the default Ctrl+Shift+V), do this:Ĥ. I have been playing with this for a while, but the closest I have gotten is a button that opens the Paste Special dialog box and requires another couple of mouse clicks to paste the contents of the. Repeat steps 1 to 5 but this time press the Alt+Shift+V combination at step 3. Under the Press New Shortcut Key field, it says that it’s currently assigned to PasteFormat.Ħ. In the Press New Shortcut Key field, press the key combination (e.g. The shortcut for Paste Without Formatting is easy to remember. You probably already know the keyboard shortcut for Paste (Mac: command-v, Windows: ctrl-v). In Word 2003, you can see what command a key combination is assigned to by opening a new blank document (based on normal.dot) and doing this:ģ. But if you choose Edit > Paste Without Formatting, it will leave the Word formatting behind and adopt the formatting of the text cursor location. If you place the insertion point into a paragraph or select the entire paragraph, then Ctrl+Shift+C copies the formatting of the entire paragraph. The shortcut for copying formatting is Ctrl+Shift+C and the shortcut for pasting is Ctrl+Shift+V. It opens the options available to paste especially some properties of the source.The shortcut to paste special in excel is CTRL. In reality, Word does provide simple keyboard commands for copying and pasting formatting. Close the Microsoft Visual Basic window. The shortcut to paste special in excel is CTRL+Command+V in MAC.Paste the Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText line from the macro above AFTER the last ‘ and BEFORE the End Sub line.Select Normal.dot (or whatever template you want to add this macro to) from the Macros in drop-down list.In the Macro name field, type NoFormatPaste.Go to Tools > Macro > Macros ( Word 2003)OR Developer tab > Macros ( Word 2007).To add the NoPasteFormat macro to your Word template: Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteTextĮnd Sub Add the macro to the Word template Then, when you need to paste in a lot of text as unformatted text, you just press the keyboard combination and it’s done. Normal.dot) and apply a keyboard command for it. Select Edit > Paste > Paste Special > Unformatted Text from the menu ( Word 2003) OR Home tab > Paste > Paste Special > Unformatted Text ( Word 2007).īut what if you have LOTS of text to paste in as unformatted text? Well, you can set up a macro in your template (e.g.
You have to do this immediately after pasting - as soon as you move away and do something else with the document, the icon option is gone.
Paste the text and click the little icon at the bottom right of the pasted text, then select Keep Text only.Some of the standard methods within Word 20 are: Word has several ways you can achieve this, some more convoluted than others, but as far as I know, there’s no standard keyboard command to paste text in as unformatted text. And sometimes you don’t want to keep any of the styles in the original text - you just want to paste in the text without any formatting. Text can take on the styles of the destination document/template or keep its own styles. Copying text from one Word document to another can be problematic, especially if you’re using templates and styles.