Word Paste Special: It's different from Normal Paste!

What you can do with the Word Paste Special? Let’s see…

Word typically preserves all formatting when you copy or cut information from a Web page or other documents and paste it into a Word document. Sometime this is good and helpful, but it can get annoying --such as when you copy the text from web that happens to be a hyperlink and Word inserts the link into your document.

There is a simple way to avoid pasting text with all that formatting using the paste special feature.

To use Paste Special to paste unformatted text

Copy the text from other sources (i.e. Web or Word document)

Open Microsoft Word, where you wish to paste the text.

From the Edit menu, click Paste Special

From the Paste Special dialog box displayed, select Unformatted Text.

Click OK. You'll insert the words themselves, without all that extraneous formatting.

Word keyboard shortcuts: Use Macro to Generate It Automatically!

Did you know that you can automatically generate a document listing all the Microsoft Word keyboard shortcuts, which you can then print or save etc?

Here's a step-by-step on how to automatically produce a comprehensive list of keyboard shortcuts:

To generate list of keyboard shortcuts

Open Microsoft Word 2003.

From the Tools menu, point to Macro and click on the Macros.

From the Macros dialog box displayed, in the Macros in: drop down menu, choose Word commands.

In the Macro name: box, choose ListCommands (you can just type in rather than scrolling through the long list in the box).

Click the Run button.

From the List Commands dialog box displayed, choose All Word commands.

Click OK and the document listing the keyboard shortcuts is generated, which you can save or print as you wish.