I just so happen to copy and paste ample amounts of text into Microsoft Word on a regular basis, and the fact that it copies over existing formatting has always been something of a niggle. A niggle, ...

Pasting text from web pages into Microsoft Word can be a serious pain—all you wanted was the text, but it copies the formatting. Reader Wille writes in with a quick tip to make it simpler. The ...

[Update 15-Mar-08: An improved version of script below appears in “Updated Paste Plain Text AppleScript for Word 2008,” 2008-03-15. -Joe Kissell] Don’t get me started on Word 2008. Suffice it to say ...

I frequently want to paste copied text into a document as unformatted text, so that the pasted stuff adopts the format of the surrounding text.<BR><BR>I did a "Record Macro" then a Edit: Paste Special ...

There have already been tentative attempts in this direction, and additional keyboard shortcuts were added to Word a year ago to enable pasting without formatting. Now Microsoft is following suit. The ...

Is there a way to make Windows Paste Special: Text or Unformatted Text. 99% of the time I have to manually go to Edit: Paste Special to get non formatted text. I almost never want to paste formatted ...