Comments on: Paste Special in Microsoft Word

By: rinku sarkr

rinku sarkr — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:47:53 +0000

would any one like to help me please? i wana to know that how can and why should we use paste special in microsoft word???????

By: meryl

meryl — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:40:17 +0000

In Word 2007, you don’t have to create the macro. You can change the settings so that every time you use Ctrl+V, it pastes text only.

Click big button > Word Options > Advanced > (under Cut, copy, and paste) change “Pasting from other programs” to “Keep text only.”

By: Imre

Imre — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:39:11 +0000

Just read it on an other forum.
Ctrl+Alt+V brings up the Paste Special window as Alt+E_S used to!!
(arrggh)

By: Hans

Hans — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:25:32 +0000

Brilliant! Thanks. Saves me a few keystrokes and maybe 30 minutes over my entire lifetime. LOL. Kidding. Seriously, thanks. This is going to help me a lot.

By: Howard

Howard — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:12:12 +0000

In response to Katy, asking about an appropriate button: In Word 2003, the right-click drop-down menu (that you see when toolbar customization is active) has options to copy, paste, and edit button images. The editor is an error-prone, one-pixel-at-a-time editor, but it’s usable. I used it to copy the ordinary Paste button and put a giant, red letter “U” for “Unformatted” over it.

By: Dawood

Dawood — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:17:33 +0000

I’d strongly recommend this solution. Just watch video tutorial to easily complete the task:

http://www.myhowtoos.com/en/excel-howtoos/83-how-to-paste-as-unformatted-text-using-a-shortcut-in-ms-word

By: Meryl

Meryl — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:54:55 +0000

Thanks, Brian. People will appreciate your making it better.

By: Brian Rubow

Brian Rubow — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:46:59 +0000

Ooops. Don’t use the previous entry suggestion. Use this instead.

Sub PasteUnformattedText()

If Selection.StartIsActive Then
Selection.Delete
End If
Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText

End Sub

By: Brian Rubow

Brian Rubow — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:54:51 +0000

Cool simple macro, but it won’t work when trying to replace selected text. With one small modification, it works better. Call ‘Selection.Delete’ before the paste function, like this:

Sub PasteUnformattedText()

Selection.Delete
Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText

End Sub

By: Meryl

Meryl — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:20:33 +0000

This doesn’t work with 2007. Instead, you’ll need to add a shortcut for Paste into the quickbar and use that. It’s not as fast or elegant as this situation, but it’s the next best thing I’ve found so far. Anyone have a better solution for 2007?