How to paste unformatted text?

[Dario de Judicibus]

90% times I have to paste text inside a Word document from other sources
and/or Word documents I *have* to paste it as Unformatted Text or
Unformatted Unicode Text. To do that I have to go to Paste Special and
select the corresponding format. A significant waste of time. Furthermore
there is no way to do that by using a shortcut, since in the best of cases I
can associate a shortcut to Paste Special, not to Paste Unformatted Text.

Any solution?

DdJ

 

[Stefan Blom]

Try a macro such as the following, which I simply created by using the
macro recorder:

Sub PasteAsUnformattedText()
On Error Resume Next
Selection.PasteSpecial Link:=False, _
DataType:=wdPasteText, Placement:= _
wdInLine, DisplayAsIcon:=False
End Sub

 

[Stefan Blom]

Just to be clear, I'd like to add that the "On Error Resume Next" part
cannot be recorded; it must be added manually.

If you need help on installing the macro, please see:

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

 

[Dario de Judicibus]

Stefan, thank you very much for useful macro and url. You solved my problem.

DdJ

 

[Stefan Blom]

You're welcome.