How do I create a keyboard shortcut?

[blaw]

I know the general method for assigning key sequences to create a
shortcut in Word. I wish to do so for the past command I often use
"Paste as Unformatted text" which I access through the menu: Edit |
Paste Special. Can I do this? I ask because I am not finding it as a an
option in the Customize Keyboard Command menu. Thanks for any ideas.
Brian Lawler

 

[matt neuburg]

I know the general method for assigning key sequences to create a
shortcut in Word. I wish to do so for the past command I often use
"Paste as Unformatted text" which I access through the menu: Edit |
Paste Special. Can I do this? I ask because I am not finding it as a an
option in the Customize Keyboard Command menu.

What I would do is a create a macro and assign the keyboard shortcut to
that. Something like this:

Sub pasteUnformatted()
Selection.PasteSpecial Link:=False, DataType:=wdPasteText
End Sub

m.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I know the general method for assigning key sequences to create a
It's not there.

What I would do is a create a macro and assign the keyboard shortcut to
that. Something like this:

Sub pasteUnformatted()
Selection.PasteSpecial Link:=False, DataType:=wdPasteText
End Sub

If you don't know what to do with that, see here:
http://daiya.mvps.org/installMacroMac.htm

 

[Clive Huggan]

And there are some explicit instructions on this in some notes on the way I
use Word for the Mac, titled "Bend Word to Your Will", which are available
as a free download from the Word MVPs' website
(http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/Bend/BendWord.htm). Do a "Find" for the
words "Paste plain text".

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is at least 7 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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