Sadly, I have also already had to describe obvious flaws in Microsoft’s implementation of this feature, such as the fact that, in Word, pasting without formatting also removes non-breaking spaces (an essential part of French punctuation), which are definitely not text formatting. I have assigned the command-shift-option-V keyboard shortcut to it, and, like I said, I use it all the time in my work, because when you have to copy and paste text from badly formatted Word documents (which is the vast majority of them), it’s the only way to preserve your sanity and maintain some decent level of formatting consistency in your own Word documents.
In an older post, I described how you can easily add this command to your Word 2004 interface.
It’s a command that takes whatever formatted text you have copied to the clipboard using command-C or the “ Copy” command in the “ Edit” menu and pastes it in the current editing location (indicated by the insertion point), but without its existing formatting, instead using the underlying formatting of the destination paragraph. badly), I make very frequent use of the “ Paste Without Formatting” command. This is just the kind of brilliant behaviour that only the extraordinarily skillful Microsoft Word engineers can come up with in their software.īecause of the way many documents that I work with have been formatted (i.e.
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