Comments on: Word 2004 Tip: Creating a direct command for pasting unformatted text

By: Pierre Igot

Pierre Igot — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:55:23 +0000

Unfortunately, it no longer works with Word 2008. :-/

By: ClintMacD

ClintMacD — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:38:43 +0000

Pierre:

Every time I set up a new Macintosh, this is the first tip I come back to.

Thanks, again!

Best wishes, Clint

By: sdimbert

sdimbert — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Pierre,

Can you please send me the entire Macro? “Paste Unformatted Text” is a key shortcut I desperately miss from Word for Windows (shift-ctrl-V).

By: Pierre Igot

Pierre Igot — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The entire macro is:

Sub EditPasteUnformatted()
    Selection.PasteAndFormat (wdFormatPlainText)
End Sub

Add it to your macros. Then you can assign the ctrl-shift-V shortcut to it with the Customize Keyboard dialog.

By: Pierre Igot

Pierre Igot — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Mmm, I take that back. It doesn’t seem to work automatically for macros, only for built-in commands. Darn.

By: Pierre Igot

Pierre Igot — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Normally, it should do it automatically. Might not work right if you have more than one shortcut assigned to the same command. (Doesn’t know which one to display.)

By: Pierre Igot

Pierre Igot — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Yes, I also put it in my menu, just in case I ever forget the keyboard shorcut I’ve assigned to it :).

By: sdimbert

sdimbert — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Can you get Word to diplay the keyboard shortcut in the menu?

By: sdimbert

sdimbert — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks a lot! This has bothered me for a long time. Your instuctions were great and I even got it into the Menu: http://unix.dimbert.net/menu.jpg

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I am still using Word X and my experience was a little different. I had to name the macro ?EditPasteUnformatted? (without the quotes) or be stuck with the name ?Macro1.?

I recorded the macro and got this language:

Sub EditPasteUnformatted()
Selection.PasteSpecial Link:=False, DataType:=wdPasteText, Placement:= _
wdInLine, DisplayAsIcon:=False
End Sub

I got some help with the above macro naming convention at:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=128
where I also found out I could clean up the code a bit by shortening the instructions to:

Selection.PasteSpecial Link:=False, DataType:=wdPasteText

Thanks for starting me off in the right direction. This is a very useful shortcut.

By: Pierre Igot

Pierre Igot — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Nancy: Thanks for the additional information!

By: Li-Ou

Li-Ou — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Wow thanks a lot. Really needed this tip. =)