For all its usefulness, Microsoft Word can be really irritating. Like how the default Print icon sends jobs directly to the printer. Or its ‘helpful’ autoformatting. Don’t even get me started on Clippy and his pals (I thought these guys were being retired)! These are just some of the things I change immediately upon installation.
Now, it’s nifty and all how the program can take just about any copied formatted text and reproduce it. I’ll admit, for ease of maintaining formatting between applications (especially the Office family), it may not be perfect but the effort is impresseive nontheless.
Most of the time I don’t want this, I’m more interested in the content. So Edit/Paste Special is my friend. But he’s a cumbersome friend. Something that Word doesn’t get a lot of credit for is how customizable it is. Yeah, you have to resort to use VB code sometimes, but at least it can be done fairly easily if you know what you’re doing or where to look. I finally took the time to learn how to make a macro for Edit/Paste Special. Check out this invaluable little article … I used it to assign Ctrl-Shift-V as my unformatted paste shortcut. The sweet life of efficiency.
Yay!