pasted text: formatting

[Scott]

Is there any way to get text pasted into a document to automatically get
the format (font, size, style, etc) of the its destination, rather than
its origin?
I.e., text copied from a document formatted as Helvetica 12 point bold.
It's pasted into a different document, into a paragraph formatted as
Palatino 11 point plain. As things are, the pasted text must be
re-formatted to match; I usually use the Format Painter. Is there a way
for pasted text to automatically be formatted to match the text
attributes where the insertion point is located?

 

[Scott]

I ought to have mentioned: I'm talking Word X.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Is there any way to get text pasted into a document to automatically get
the format (font, size, style, etc) of the its destination, rather than
its origin?
I.e., text copied from a document formatted as Helvetica 12 point bold.
It's pasted into a different document, into a paragraph formatted as
Palatino 11 point plain. As things are, the pasted text must be
re-formatted to match; I usually use the Format Painter. Is there a way
for pasted text to automatically be formatted to match the text
attributes where the insertion point is located?

If the text is pasted mid paragraph, just select the paragraph, or the
pasted text, and force "normal for style" with a ctrl-space.

If the pasted material spans paragraphs, I'd simply assign a style to
the pasted text and then tell it normal for style. All done with a
couple or three keystrokes. e.g (select) cmd-shift-s b ret ctrl-space
Nice and short because my body style is abbreviated to b and I keep the
formatting palette open.
If you are not using styles - and you are missing out on most of Word -
then you might copy a paragraph mark from the existing text, paste it
over the paragraph mark of the pasted text and then force normal for
style. It might help, depending on the surrounding text.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Yes: Use Edit>Paste Special>Plain Text.

I have a macro that does that automatically.

If you name the macro EditPaste() it replaces the past command and you have
no further trouble.

Cheers


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Is there any way to get text pasted into a document to automatically get
the format (font, size, style, etc) of the its destination, rather than
its origin?
I.e., text copied from a document formatted as Helvetica 12 point bold.
It's pasted into a different document, into a paragraph formatted as
Palatino 11 point plain. As things are, the pasted text must be
re-formatted to match; I usually use the Format Painter. Is there a way
for pasted text to automatically be formatted to match the text
attributes where the insertion point is located?

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[Paul Berkowitz]

If the text is pasted mid paragraph, just select the paragraph, or the
pasted text, and force "normal for style" with a ctrl-space.

If the pasted material spans paragraphs, I'd simply assign a style to
the pasted text and then tell it normal for style. All done with a
couple or three keystrokes. e.g (select) cmd-shift-s b ret ctrl-space
Nice and short because my body style is abbreviated to b and I keep the
formatting palette open.
If you are not using styles - and you are missing out on most of Word -
then you might copy a paragraph mark from the existing text, paste it
over the paragraph mark of the pasted text and then force normal for
style. It might help, depending on the surrounding text.

....Or ask again when Office 2004 is released...

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[Tim Murray]

I ought to have mentioned: I'm talking Word X.

You can use Paste Special > Unformatted Text. It will take on the attributes
of where the I-beam is at the time of the paste as if you had typed from the
keyboard. If your I-beam is in a spot with an override (say, a bold), it will
be bold.