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, ...

[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 ...

It confounds me why this took so long, but Microsoft is at last making it easier to paste plain text with a keyboard shortcut; support for this is now available to Microsoft 365 Insiders in the Beta ...

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 ...