Paste in Word 2002

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I sometimes highlight text from a web page and copy it into a Word document.
I find that using Paste Special's "unformatted text" option turns off the
html formatting and applies the document formatting when I paste the
selection into the Word document. This _is_ what I want, but it requires
several steps. How can I make this option the default paste option of
highlighting text and right-clicking to get to the paste option? Thanks.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Nospam,

I sometimes highlight text from a web page and copy it into a Word document.
I find that using Paste Special's "unformatted text" option turns off the
html formatting and applies the document formatting when I paste the
selection into the Word document. This _is_ what I want, but it requires
several steps. How can I make this option the default paste option of
highlighting text and right-clicking to get to the paste option?

Well, fewer steps would be to make sure the Paste Options feature is enabled
(Tools/Options/Edit), then click on that immediately after pasting and
choosing "Keep text only"

A macro, assigned to a keyboardshortcut would be faster, of course. Here' an
example that would probably work on your machine:

Sub PasteTextOnly()
Selection.PasteAndFormat(wdFormatPlainText)
End Sub

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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