Efficiency Tip #20 – Paste Special

This one is my wife’s favorite.

When you copy text, you also copy all the formatting and even HTML if the original is on a web page. Pasting into Word (or any other word processor) can create a mess that must be manually repaired. Instead of the normal Paste command, try Edit/Copy/Paste Special. If you want to use only the keyboard

Alt-E, and then S

From there you can paste unformatted text. In this way the only thing that ends up being copied is the text. All the text, tables, bullets, etc are left behind.

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