Family Niesen - MS Office Tipp: Keyboard shortcut for paste unformatted text command

Often I have the need to copy text from another source into Microsoft Word but I don't want to retain the text formatting. Using Edit -> Paste Special -> Unformatted Text from the menu is a pain. Instead I setup the Ctrl-Shift-V key combination to do so. This uses an unused key combination and thus the formatted paste remains availiable unlike the example at Microsoft's Help and How-to from which these instructions originate.

Creating the Macro:

Start Word.
On the Tools menu, point to Macro, and then click Macros to display the Macros dialog box.
In the Macro name box, type PasteUnformattedText.
Make sure that All active templates and documents is displayed in the Macros in list, and then click Create. The Microsoft Visual Basic® Editor is displayed.
Directly above the End Sub statement in the PasteUnformattedText subroutine, type the following line of code:
```
Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText
```
On the File menu, click Close and Return to Microsoft Word.

Assigning the Keyboard Shortcut:

On the Tools menu, click Customize.
Click the Keyboard button.
Make sure the Save changes in box displays Normal.dot.
In the Categories list, click Macros.
In the Macros list, click PasteUnformattedText.
Click in the Press new shortcut key box, press and hold the CTRL and Shift keys, and then press and hold the V key at the same time. The Press new shortcut key box displays Ctrl+Shift+V.
Click Assign. Click Close and then click Close again.

Page last modified: August 21, 2008