How do I change the default Paste behavior
 

I do MUCH copy and past from word documents, and even sometimes html documents.

99.9% of the time, I want the paste to be "plain text" or "match destination
formating." Is there any way to make this the default paste behavior instead
of "keep source formating?"

I don't mind the little paste formating window beign there for the few times
when I want the sorce formating to stay, I just don't want to have to click
it 99% of the time to get the formating I want when I paste.

Hi Adam,

PureText Home Page
http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

"Adam Bell" wrote in message ...
I do MUCH copy and past from word documents, and even sometimes html documents.

99.9% of the time, I want the paste to be "plain text" or "match destination
formating." Is there any way to make this the default paste behavior instead
of "keep source formating?"

I don't mind the little paste formating window beign there for the few times
when I want the sorce formating to stay, I just don't want to have to click
it 99% of the time to get the formating I want when I paste.

That is a big step in the right direction :) Thanks

It still have a tendacy to copy the bullet, whil excel's "destination
formating" clears it. So there is no nice setting for excel?

"David McRitchie" wrote:

Hi Adam,

PureText Home Page
http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

"Adam Bell" wrote in message ...
I do MUCH copy and past from word documents, and even sometimes html documents.

99.9% of the time, I want the paste to be "plain text" or "match destination
formating." Is there any way to make this the default paste behavior instead
of "keep source formating?"

I don't mind the little paste formating window beign there for the few times
when I want the sorce formating to stay, I just don't want to have to click
it 99% of the time to get the formating I want when I paste.

Hi Adam,
Did realize there was more than formatted text (like in Rich Text Format) or
Plain Text.

Never heard of "match destination formatting" but since you put it in quotes, I did
a Google search and there are a lot of hits on it -- looks like it is new in
Word 2002 from what I can see

Microsoft Word Help FAQ. How Paste Options works in Microsoft Word 2002 and 2003
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...ionsWorks.html.

Don't follow it very well, but at the very bottom of the article he says
So far, this has all been quite straight-forward, hasn't it?! If you copy numbered
or bulleted paragraphs it gets messy in ways I can't bring myself to go into right now.

Sounds like something for a Word newsgroup, on the other hand you
also mentioned HTML.

I think Pure Text is much like pasting to NotePad and then from Notepad
to Excel, but you might try that and see if there is a difference in what you are
doing.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

"Adam Bell" wrote in message ...
That is a big step in the right direction :) Thanks

It still have a tendacy to copy the bullet, whil excel's "destination
formating" clears it. So there is no nice setting for excel?

"David McRitchie" wrote:

Hi Adam,

PureText Home Page
http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

"Adam Bell" wrote in message ...
I do MUCH copy and past from word documents, and even sometimes html documents.

99.9% of the time, I want the paste to be "plain text" or "match destination
formating." Is there any way to make this the default paste behavior instead
of "keep source formating?"

I don't mind the little paste formating window beign there for the few times
when I want the sorce formating to stay, I just don't want to have to click
it 99% of the time to get the formating I want when I paste.