Is there a way to normalize pasted text in MS Word?

[ero87]

Hey,

I often paste text from a website or PDF into a Word document. However, it's annoying to deal with the melange of fonts that result.

Is there a way to make it so that all text, when pasted into Word, is converted into the same font & size as the current document? Or to a certain standard (e.g. Times New Roman, font 12)?

Thanks!

 

[72930]

Hey,

I often paste text from a website or PDF into a Word document. However, it's annoying to deal with the melange of fonts that result.

Is there a way to make it so that all text, when pasted into Word, is converted into the same font & size as the current document? Or to a certain standard (e.g. Times New Roman, font 12)?

Thanks!

Yes Edit-> Paste special -> Unformatted text

 

[ero87]

sweet! Thanks so much!

anyway of making that the standard command-v? Or giving it some kind of shortcut?

 

[d wade]

Or giving it some kind of shortcut?

it already has a built in one

click the little box that pops up and select 'keep text only'

it pops up every time you paste something from outside Word

 

[Scottyk9]

A keyboard shortcut would be better (you can do this with Pages - shift+option+apple+V).

Wonder if you you could try creating a shortcut using system pref> keyboard & mouse > Keyboard shortcuts (add Word to Application Keyboard Shortcuts) ?

edit:
ahh, I think because Paste Special... comes up as a dialogue box, it can't be done...

 

[jmre5150]

it already has a built in one

click the little box that pops up and select 'keep text only'

it pops up every time you paste something from outside Word

Nothing pops up for me...I click edit.Paste Special and then select "Unformatted Text" from my choice of that and "Styled Text". Nothing gives me the choice of "Keep Text Only" and I merely click "OK'. Next time I go to paste something, I go through the whole process again without anything popping up. It's annoying.