{"id":179,"date":"2007-05-12T21:45:26","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T02:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/12\/efficiency-tip-20-paste-special\/"},"modified":"2015-05-14T09:14:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:14:53","slug":"efficiency-tip-20-paste-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/12\/efficiency-tip-20-paste-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficiency Tip #20 &#8211; Paste Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paste Special\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/pastespecial.png\" align=\"right\" \/>This one is my wife&#8217;s favorite.<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p>Alt-E, and then S<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>TSPY=7.12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one is my wife&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/12\/efficiency-tip-20-paste-special\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[336,338],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","category-efficiency","tag-edtech","tag-efficiency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}