‘Paste Special’ for headache relief Oct11 '04
Ever notice that when you copy/paste text from another program to Microsoft Word or PowerPoint – the text never looks the way you want it to? It’s always either truncated or enlarged, in a different font, centered, flush right, and RED.
Okay, maybe that’s a bit extreme, but the text is always messed up in SOME way.
What a pain this is. How can anyone be productive with performance like this?
Lately I’ve been using "Paste Special...," which pastes just the text, without formatting applied.
This option is usually located under the Edit menu:
Once you select "Paste Special...," a dialog box will prompt you for further information. If you select "Unformatted Text," your copied text will paste without formatting applied.
This has saved me loads of time and frustration, and certainly increased my productivity.
My only issue is that there is no immediate keyboard shortcut for "Paste Special..." You have to go to that menu every time. That is a pain.
But it’s still better than the old way.
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Ahhh, a man of my kinda thinking. Always coming up with ways to get around the quirks of Microsoft products. I will keep this in mind, I have that ... Read more.
Check out http://www.vbaexpress.com/kb/getarticle.php?kb_id=18 and http://stevemiller.net/puretext/ ... Read more.
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Paste Special is very useful. Although normally I'd just paste it into notepad and then copy it out again. Although your way is easier :p ... Read more.