How can I force PASTE to paste as plain, unformmated text...

[Walter Sobchak]

I always have to go PASTE SPECIAL, UNFORMATTED or PLAIN TEXT

Surely there must be a way to get office to paste these items as unformmated text rather than HTML..

thanks in advance for any help you can give me

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

I always have to go PASTE SPECIAL, UNFORMATTED or PLAIN TEXT.

Surely there must be a way to get office to paste these items as
unformmated text rather than HTML...

Applications try to take the richest format off the clipboard by default.
Why not create a macro to do the desired paste special ?

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[Opinicus]

Applications try to take the richest format off the clipboard by
default. Why not create a macro to do the desired paste special ?

This is the macro I use:

<quote>
Sub PasteUnformatted()
'
' PasteUnformatted Macro
' Control shift V pastes the clipboard without formatting
Selection.PasteSpecial Link:=False, DataType:=wdPasteText, Placement:= _
wdInLine, DisplayAsIcon:=False
End Sub
<quote>

I didn't create it and I don't remember who I got it from.