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Stephen M. St. Onge - 25 Dec 2003 20:50 GMT

There are a couple of defaults I would like to know how
to change, if possible.

When I paste something in to the document I am working on
now, up pops the paste options button. If I click on it,
it shows the default as "Keep Source Formatting". But I
don't want to keep the source formatting, I want
to "Match the Destination Formatting." So I click that
and the text switches to the formatting I laboriously put
in there.

Then I move to another place, to paste some other text,
and the button has disappeared. When I paste the new
text, it's back in "Keep Source Formatting" as the
default.

How can I get control of that button so that no matter
how many times I paste different items in different
locations, it defaults to "Match the Destination
Formatting?"

And does anyone know how to change the default on search
and replace with marked text? I carefully mark some
text, put in what I want replaced, hit Alt-A, the program
changes the marked text, and then it asks me if I want to
do that to the rest of the document, with yes as the
default. I dream of finding the person who did this and
beating him to death with a sledge hammer, screaming "Why
do you think I marked the text in the first place? If I
wanted global search and replace for the whole document,
I wouldn't have selected specified text in the first
place!" Is there some way to make the default "No," so I
can just hit enter, or better yet, not have it ask me at
all?

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Graham Mayor - 26 Dec 2003 06:28 GMT

Word 2003 has some paste option settings on the tools > options > edit page
or;
you could record the steps in a macro and add the macro to a personal paste
button
or;
you could use the following code

Sub PasteUnfText()
On Error GoTo Oops
Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText, Placement:= _
wdInLine
End
Oops:
Beep
End Sub

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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> There are a couple of defaults I would like to know how
> to change, if possible.
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> can just hit enter, or better yet, not have it ask me at
> all?

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