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[asterroc]

Why doesn't MS Word have a hotkey for Paste Unformatted Text?

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[rosefox]

I macro it to Ctrl-Shift-V on every computer I use. Drives me crazy otherwise.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Now if only I knew how macros worked... *Searches help file*

[rosefox]

You can set it as the keyboard shortcut for "paste special", too.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm stumped. I followed the directions in the help file and it didn't work, using the newly assigned keyboard shortcut gave only a normal Paste, not an unformatted Paste. It very clearly is assigning Paste to the new keyboard shortcut, b/c I tried a keyboard shortcut that isn't assigned to anything - I chose Ctrl-Shift-V, which on Macs does nothing and even Ctrl-V doesn't even do anything (Command-V does Paste on Macs), so for some reason it's assigning Paste not unformatted Paste to the new key shortcut. Any ideas?

[rosefox]

Word X: Tools -> Customize -> Keyboard -> Edit -> EditPasteSpecial -> Control+Shift+V -> Ok

Word 2008: Tools -> Customize Keyboard -> Edit -> EditPasteSpecial -> Control+Shift+V -> Ok

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

OH! That's not the same as a Macro at all. Yeah that works for me.

I still wonder why the Macro didn't, since this way I still have to pick "Unformatted Text" in the menu, but I can deal.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

And thanks!

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

Every day in every way I love you more and more.

[rosefox]

Or, for macros in Word X:

Tools -> Macro -> Record New Macro -> [name it] -> Assign to Keyboard -> Control+Shift+V -> OK -> [macro starts recording] Edit -> Paste Special -> As Unformatted Text -> OK [stop recording]

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's exactly what I did, and then when I used it it was normal paste, not paste unformatted. *shrug* Oh well, what I've got works well enough, thanks for the help.

[kelsin.livejournal.com]

That would mean you are probably pasting from outside of word. Why on earth would you ever want to do that?????!??!!!!111

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Maybe I wanted to paste text from an email I was reading in MS Internet Explorer? Or even just from another Word document using a different size/font of text. (Not actually true, at the time I was pasting text from a document I'd written in KompoZer.)