Paste Options-Changing Defaults

[GLMoore]

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

 

[Jay Freedman]

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/microsoft.public.word.newusers/msg/9ef09911e7cf4762
for the macro and some discussion.

 

[GLMoore]

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]

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]

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?