Thanks Jim. Appreciate the macro.
Jerry

"Jim Rech" wrote:

I don't think there is a way to default Excel to the destination formatting.
The only workaround might be to paste via a macro:

Sub PasteDestinFormat()
ActiveSheet.PasteSpecial Format:="Text"
End Sub
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Jim
"Jerry" wrote in message
...
| When copying text from another application into a cell in Excel, I can
either
| choose to retain the source formatting or use the destination formatting.
| Does anyone know a way that I can make the Excel destination formatting
the
| default so that it is not necssary to make the selection on every
copy/paste?
|
| Jerry