Word shortcut paste without formatting mac 2011
The new keyboard shortcut will shift into the Current keys box.
If it doesn’t, then the key combination you chose is already used for something else and you’ll have to assign a new combination in the Press new shortcut key field. Checked that Currently assigned to has next to it.They will display in the field similar to this: Alt+P,T (3 in the screenshot). For example, if you want the keyboard shortcut to be Alt+p+t (‘p’ for paste, ‘t’ for text), then press those keys as though you were using them in the document. In the Press new shortcut key field, PRESS the keys you want to use for this shortcut.Scroll down to PasteTextOnly and select it (2 in the screenshot). After having copied something go where you want to paste it (without pasting the format).In the Commands list (top right box), type p to get to the commands starting with ‘p’.Scroll down the list of Categories (top left box) to All commands and select it (number 1 in the screenshot below).Below the left panel of commands, click the Customize button (next to Keyboard shortcuts) to open the Customize Keyboard dialog box.Click Customize ribbon in the left panel.On the File menu, click Options to open the Word Options dialog box.Note: As far as I’m aware you can do this in all versions of Word from at least Word 2010 onwards. Note that it is not the same as Paste and match formatting, which first pastes rich text and then formats it.
Word shortcut paste without formatting mac 2011 how to#
The following video shows how to assign pasting as plain text (without formatting) to Cmd+V keyboard shortcut/hotkey in Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac OS X. Update from 2018: for Word 2016 instructions, click here. However, if you have to do this a lot, there’s another, much easier, way - assign a keyboard shortcut to the ‘paste as unformatted text’ command. Word 2011: paste unformatted (plain) text with Cmd+V shortcut. I’ve previously written about using toolbar icons, macros, or other features of Word to paste copied text as unformatted text (see and ).