Word: Assign keyboard shortcut to paste unformatted text
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Keyboard shortcut to paste unformatted text into Word 2008 for the Mac| Jim's Junk Drawer says: February 14th, 2009 at Feb 14, 09| 3:24 pm Then use System Preferences to set a keyboard command for the resulting script menu item. For some, being able to paste without formatting is a great Mac shortcut to save time from having to reformat the text. But for others, it can just take extra time having to make the changes. For other tips on better use of Mac, check out Best Mac OS X Tips and Tricks.
August 11, 2016 Paste Without Formatting Mac
I’ve previously written about using toolbar icons, macros, or other features of Word to paste copied text as unformatted text (see https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/word-keyboard-shortcut-to-paste-unformatted-text/ and https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/word-2010-keyboard-shortcut-to-paste-unformatted-text/).
However, if you have to do this a lot, there’s another, much easier, way — assign a keyboard shortcut to the ‘paste as unformatted text’ command.
Shortcut For Pasting Text
Note: As far as I’m aware you can do this in all versions of Word from at least Word 2010 onwards.
- Open Word.
- On the File menu, click Options to open the Word Options dialog box.
- Click Customize ribbon in the left panel.
- Below the left panel of commands, click the Customize button (next to Keyboard shortcuts) to open the Customize Keyboard dialog box.
- Scroll down the list of Categories (top left box) to All commands and select it (number 1 in the screenshot below).
- In the Commands list (top right box), type p to get to the commands starting with ‘p’.
- Scroll down to PasteTextOnly and select it (2 in the screenshot).
- In the Press new shortcut key field, PRESS the keys you want to use for this shortcut. Do NOT type them. For example, if you want the keyboard shortcut to be Alt+p+t (‘p’ for paste, ‘t’ for text), then press those keys as though you were using them in the document. They will display in the field similar to this: Alt+P,T (3 in the screenshot).
- Checked that Currently assigned to has [unassigned] next to it. If it doesn’t, then the key combination you chose is already used for something else and you’ll have to assign a new combination in the Press new shortcut key field.
- Click Assign (4 in the screenshot). The new keyboard shortcut will shift into the Current keys box.
- Click Close.
- Click OK to close the Word Options dialog box.
- Test your keyboard shortcut by copying some formatted text from another source (web page, another document, etc.), then use the keyboard shortcut you just assigned to paste it into your Word document as unformatted text.
Make A Shortcut For Paste Unformatted Text Mac Powerpoint
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