When composing mail, I often need to paste information from other Office
apps, for ex the content of several Excel cells, and I need to paste it as
text without any formatting.
I can do it with Edit->Paste Special->Unformatted text, but this is very
cumbersome.
I would like to create a toolbar button (or a keyboard shortcut) to do it,
like in Excel Paste Values.
But in outlook 2003 (+word) when customizing toolbars I find only Paste
Special, which still requires selecting the option "unformatted text" and
return.
I there any way to create a button which does it?

(I suspect it could be done with a macro, but I'm not masstering them yet)

I do this with an independent little 3rd-party app called PureText; it
sits in the systray, and when you click on the icon it converts your
clipboard to unformatted text. http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/

dan_pub wrote:
> When composing mail, I often need to paste information from other Office
> apps, for ex the content of several Excel cells, and I need to paste it as
> text without any formatting.
> I can do it with Edit->Paste Special->Unformatted text, but this is very
> cumbersome.
> I would like to create a toolbar button (or a keyboard shortcut) to do it,
> like in Excel Paste Values.
> But in outlook 2003 (+word) when customizing toolbars I find only Paste
> Special, which still requires selecting the option "unformatted text" and
> return.
> I there any way to create a button which does it?
>
> (I suspect it could be done with a macro, but I'm not masstering them yet)

> http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/

Works perfect! Very practical too, with the win-V key.
Thank you, Pat.