Paste text-Match destination format

[catland]

Is there a simple way to set the preferences or something so that when
I paste it always matches the destination format without having to use
the paste options button which I find annoying?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Not the preferences, but you can record it into a macro and assign the
keyboard shortcut cmd-v to it.
See here if you don't know how to do that:
http://daiya.mvps.org/pastemacros.htm