
In the Press New Shortcut Key field, press the key combination (e.g. In Word 2003, you can see what command a key combination is assigned to by opening a new blank document (based on normal.dot) and doing this:ģ.
Close the Microsoft Visual Basic window. Paste the Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText line from the macro above AFTER the last ‘ and BEFORE the End Sub line. Select Normal.dot (or whatever template you want to add this macro to) from the Macros in drop-down list. In the Macro name field, type NoFormatPaste. Go to Tools > Macro > Macros ( Word 2003)OR Developer tab > Macros ( Word 2007).
To add the NoPasteFormat macro to your Word template: Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteTextĮnd Sub Add the macro to the Word template Then, when you need to paste in a lot of text as unformatted text, you just press the keyboard combination and it’s done. Normal.dot) and apply a keyboard command for it.
Select Edit > Paste > Paste Special > Unformatted Text from the menu ( Word 2003) OR Home tab > Paste > Paste Special > Unformatted Text ( Word 2007).īut what if you have LOTS of text to paste in as unformatted text? Well, you can set up a macro in your template (e.g. You have to do this immediately after pasting - as soon as you move away and do something else with the document, the icon option is gone. Paste the text and click the little icon at the bottom right of the pasted text, then select Keep Text only. Some of the standard methods within Word 20 are: Word has several ways you can achieve this, some more convoluted than others, but as far as I know, there’s no standard keyboard command to paste text in as unformatted text.
And sometimes you don’t want to keep any of the styles in the original text - you just want to paste in the text without any formatting. Text can take on the styles of the destination document/template or keep its own styles. In the current version of macOS, Catalina, you set up text macros in System Preferences, under “Keyboard.Copying text from one Word document to another can be problematic, especially if you’re using templates and styles.
Twitter Handle: the Calendly link, that used to come from a sticky. Think, for instance, of answering a HARO query. Same goes for any number of other strings of text. Now I just type “cal” and get the option to add it instantly:
Time was, I typed it from memory, or copied the link from a sticky on my desktop. Text macros let you add them instantly by typing only a few letters.įor example, I send my Calendly link at least five times a day. Those are all quite a few characters long. Think about the things you type every single day.