Comments on: Word 2008 Tip: Creating a direct command for pasting unformatted text

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By: Tipp: Tastaturkürzel für Einfügen von unformatiertem Text in Word 2008

Tipp: Tastaturkürzel für Einfügen von unformatiertem Text in Word 2008 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:05:24 +0000

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By: Keyboard shortcut to paste unformatted text into Word 2008 for the Mac | Jim's Junk Drawer

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:24:01 +0000

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By: Pierre Igot

Pierre Igot — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:22:19 +0000

You might have to quit/relaunch Word. As per usual, scripting support is pretty flaky, at least in my experience.

By: daigoro

daigoro — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:05:03 +0000

I’ve tried both of these. The script menu highlights, but no text gets pasted. (To double-check I then do a standard paste which results in the text being pasted). I’m completely current on both Word and Leopard.

By: Pierre Igot

Pierre Igot — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:21:37 +0000

Yes, this works much better. Obviously a completely different approach, but what matters is that it works as expected. Thanks a bunch!

By: Joe Kissell

Joe Kissell — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:29:38 +0000

Try this one…

tell application "/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word.app" tell selection try set theClip to Unicode text of (the clipboard as record) type text text theClip end try end tell end tell

By: Pierre Igot

Pierre Igot — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:39:20 +0000

Magnus: I am afraid your script doesn’t seem to make any difference. Sometimes it moves the cursor to the right by a word, but that’s about it. Don’t know what character code 124 is supposed to be, but the keyboard shortcut in question doesn’t miraculously jump from the beginning to the end of the just-pasted text, at least on my system (with Canadian CSA keyboard layout).

Maybe you could clarify how your script is supposed to work?

By: MagnusB

MagnusB — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:10:17 +0000

tell application “/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word.app”
paste and format (text object of selection) type format plain text
end tell
tell application “System Events”
tell application “/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word.app” to activate
key code 124 using command down
end tell

By: Pierre Igot

Pierre Igot — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:48:11 +0000

I am afraid Microsoft is not in the business of fixing their software’s numerous annoyances. They are in the business of trying to make as much money as possible with as few improvements as possible.

By: somethingorother5

somethingorother5 — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:50:57 +0000

Thank you so much for posting this. I’m constantly pasting content from the web, so having to change the formatting around was always a serious pain. I can’t believe they didn’t change this behavior in Word 2008 as it was a big annoyance in Word 2004.

I can’t believe they don’t at least have a preference to always paste using the destination formatting. I can’t really think of many times where I have wanted to keep the source formatting.