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.