Paste with current font

[Howard Brazee]

I'm always cutting and pasting into Word - and getting a wrong font -
for the whole paragraph I am pasting to. I paint brush the font to
match everything else.

Is there a way to set things up to default with pasting with the
current font?

 

[Howard Brazee]

I'm always cutting and pasting into Word - and getting a wrong font -
for the whole paragraph I am pasting to. I paint brush the font to
match everything else.

Is there a way to set things up to default with pasting with the
current font?

Sometimes even starting to type an addition to my document is in a
different type.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

 

[Patty Winter]

I've never found a way to make "Paste Special > Unformatted Text"
a default. Lord knows I could use that on many an occasion! At least
in newer versions of Word, it displays the little Paste Options box
at the end of the pasted text, and you can choose Match Destination
Formatting easily from that.

Sometimes even starting to type an addition to my document is in a
different type.

That indicates to me that you have some unwanted paragraphy styles
floating around the document. Does your base template have the Normal
style that you wish? If not, redefine Normal and make it the default.
That way all your new documents will start with the style you want;
you can then override it for specific paragraphs if desired.

When I encounter an unwanted style like that, I select all the
paragraph marks that it might be affecting (I know they're there
even if I don't activate Show Paragraphs) and apply style Normal
to them.

You probably know this, but if you paste in text from another
document, you can end up with all sorts of paragraph styles from
that document. That's why I'm careful to paste without formatting
in most instances.


Patty

 

[Howard Brazee]

I've never found a way to make "Paste Special > Unformatted Text"
a default. Lord knows I could use that on many an occasion! At least
in newer versions of Word, it displays the little Paste Options box
at the end of the pasted text, and you can choose Match Destination
Formatting easily from that.

I never opened that box - thanks!

That indicates to me that you have some unwanted paragraphy styles
floating around the document. Does your base template have the Normal
style that you wish? If not, redefine Normal and make it the default.
That way all your new documents will start with the style you want;
you can then override it for specific paragraphs if desired.

I've never touched a template. I'd like to save my document style -
provided it doesn't have hidden stuff I don't know about.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

 

[Steve Hodgson]

Sometimes even starting to type an addition to my document is in a
different type.

It may be that whatever style you are adding to is set to use a
different style in the following paragraph. If you look at a style in
Word (Format | Style then modify) you will see that it is often based
on another style (for instance 'normal') and then the style that
follows may have another style altogether. Paste in a stye called
'apples', enter a carriage return and the text you start typing may be
'oranges' with completely different properties.

As for your original query, I tend to use a system-wide third party
utility to provide a paste unformatted text shortcut in every
application. This means your pasted text will match the current style
rather than copying over a new style. Word is not alone in benefiting
from this. I use Keyboard Maestro but there are plenty of others and
some free alternatives. In Word 2011 the Paste Without Formatting
command is disabled when the text in the Clipboard is not formatted,
which means that you cannot get into the habit of using it all the time
so I recommend sticking to other alternatives.

Hope this helps.
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Cheers,

Steve

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