Right-Click option: Paste Unformatted

[JimC123]

Hello all,

I checked the FAQs, cannot find anything addressing it.

As often happens, I find formatted text on the web that I want to copy and
paste, without any formatting, into a WORD doc.

A good mod perhaps someone in the form could suggest would be:
(a) word defaults to pasting w/o formatting
or GREAT:
(b) adding a right click option for "Paste w/o Formatting"

I am using Word 2003.

Any help?
Thanks.

JimC123

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can use Paste Special as Unformatted Text in any version of Word. In
Word 2002 and 2003, if you have the Paste Options button enabled, you have
further choices: click the arrow and you can choose "Keep Text Only" (the
equivalent of pasting unformatted text) or any of several other
context-sensitive options. For more, see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/HowPasteOptionsWorks.html

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Jay Freedman]

Hi Jim,

Put this macro in your normal.dot or another global template (see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm):

Public Sub PasteUnformatted()
On Error Resume Next ' if clipboard has no text
Selection.PasteSpecial datatype:=wdPasteText
End Sub

Add the macro to one or more of the right-click (shortcut) menus as
described at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToToolbar.htm.