In Mac OS X, when you copy and paste text from one place to another it retains the text formatting. That can be cool, or it can be very time consuming. And annoying.
Version: Word 14.0.6129.5000 32 bit OS: Win 7 Hi - We receive tons of word-documents to our newspaper, and many of these are copied and pasted into incopy. Some of the editors also use track changes in word heavily.
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The ordinary ctrl+a ctrl+c ctrl-v copies track-changes-info. (This also apply if we copy to notepad etc.) Is there an easy way to copy just the text without all the track chages-info, just the final text? This is a big problem for us, and I haven't found a quick and easy solution on the web. Regards - Johannes (Sorry for bad english). Hi Hans, I just retested this Copy/Paste of Tracked Changes and Comments under Word 2011 for the Mac and Word 2010 for the PC.
The results vary. Regarding the PC with 2010 version. Regardless of the Show Tracking settings in the Source document, the tracked changes DO NOT transfer from the source Word document to the destination Word document. Regardless of the Show Tracking setting in the Source document, comments ALWAYS carry over into the destination Word document. In all cases, source document tracked changes ALWAYS transfer to Note documents. Paste Unformatted DOES NOT eliminate the tracked changes and comments when pasting to a Word destination document Regarding Word 2011 on the Mac.
Regardless of the Show Tracking settings in the source document, the tracked changes DO NOT transfer from the source Word document to the destination Word document. Regardless of the Show Tracking setting in the Source document, comments ALWAYS carry over to the destination Word document.
In all cases, source document tracked changes DO NOT transfer to Text (txt) documents. Paste Unformatted ALWAYS eliminates the tracked changes and comments when pasted into the destination Word document. On both versions the default settings for Smart Copy/Paste and Cut, Copy, Paste we in effect.
All test files where xml formats. (docx) Kind Regards, Rich.
In a roundabout fashion yes, mostly. In MS Office their version of 'Paste as plain text' is called 'Paste and Match Style and uses the macOS system defaults ( Option Command Shift V) for paste as plain text for that function.
Now if you don't want to have to do that four finger salute just to paste (essentially) plain text, you can change the menu shortcuts in any application via the Keyboard Preference pane. Click on System Preferences Keyboard Shortcuts App Shortcuts. Click the + button and from the Application menu select (for example) Microsoft Word. Enter the menu title that you want to change. Noting that the menu that you want to assign or reassign it's keyboard shortcut much match exactly what the menu says down to the capitalization. Click in the Keyboard Shortcut field and tap the keyboard shortcut you want to assign to that menu option, then click Add. Repeat for any other keyboard shortcuts you want to add/change in any other applications you want to change them for.
In this example I reassigned 'Paste' to Option Command Shift V. And 'Paste and match Formatting' to Command V. I didn't do this for all applications as I don't want to chance messing up the behavior of other applications that you can copy/paste with.
NOTE that this is not really 'paste plain text' but will give you at least some of that functionality with very little pain. To really get paste plain text in an MS Office application you would likely need something that could capture a regular paste command and then select the plain text icon from the formatting menu that pops up at the insertion point after you paste. There may be a macro program out there that can do that but I am unaware of any specific ones with that functionality. Here is the definite solution for all versions:. Select a cell and copy it.
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Go to Tools Macros record new macro. Specify a shortcut, for example option+ command+ b. Click enter. focus on any empty cell and click control+ v, then select 'paste and style formatting' in the options. Go to Tools Macros Stop Macro. Next, download and install. Go to Preferences keyboard.
Add new shortcut. Enter command+ v in the shortcut field and enter option+ command+ b in the triggered shortcut field. I used the above answer as a reference and added my own solution: Macro1: Copy some formatted text.
Let the document cursor stay somewhere in the document. Go to Tools Macros record new macro. Specify a shortcut with option+command+shift+b (finish macro creation) Press cmd+v Select destination formatting Go to Tools Macros Stop Macro. Macro2: Go to Tools Macros record new macro Specify a shortcut with cmd+v (override the normal paste) This time you press option+command+shift+b Go to Tools Macros Stop Macro Done. Now each time you press cmd+v you will call a macro which calls another macro and your text will be formatted correctly. (This is a solution tested in word).