Hello-



I am a new Word 2013 user. I recently created a template and I need to copy and paste info from another source into the template. When I paste the text shows up in a format other then the default format of the template.

For instance, my templates default font is verdana 8 pt but when I paste it shows up in another font and size.

Is there a way to get the information I want to paste to show up in the formatting I have set for the template?

Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided.

This is not something peculiar to Word 2013, but Paste Special > Keep Text only will insert the pasted text with the format at the cursor position.

or using a macro -

Sub PasteUnfText()
On Error GoTo Oops
Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText, _
Placement:=wdInLine
End
Oops:
Beep
End Sub

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Thank you GMayor....Paste special worked. Would you also know how to change text I highlight in my template document to the default font/size for the template? For instance, if my default font and size in my template is Verdana 8 pt but I have a paragraph of text in another font/size and I would like to highlight that text and change it to the default template font/size is there a way to do that with a keyboad shortcut rather then actually going in and changing the settings? Thanks in advance for any further help you can provide GMayor.

CTRL+Space will set the manually formatted text to the underlying paragraph style.

Word is a style based application. Trying to avoid using styles is hampering your document editing. If you create (or edit) styles that have the formatting you require for the various types of paragraph, you will find reformatting much easier.

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Thanks again gmayor. That worked as well. :-)