Hi folks, nice to be here. I'm new to the forum but I've been using Word for quite a while. This is a stumper though, since it's a scripting issue. I'm trying to make a macro that pastes unformatted text. I often have to paste something into a document from another source that has a lot of formatting I want to get rid of. It’s a bit cumbersome to go to Home > Paste > Paste Special, etc. every time. I’ve tried creating a macro to do this but it always pastes the formatted text instead. Am I missing a step?

Thanks,

Andacar

Hi Andacar,

Without seeing your code, it's hard to say what you might be doing wrong. However, there is a simpler way: simply go to Word Options > Advanced > Cut, Copy & Paste and set the 'Pasting from other programs' parameter to 'Match destination formatting'.

For a macro solution, try:
You might want to add this to a keyboard shortcut.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Ah, I see. I was just running the macro recorder and selecting the option for unformatted text. But now that I look at the script I can see it just used the default formatting. Thanks.

Andacar