Comments on: How to get Word to paste unformatted text by default

By: Garrett N Evans

Garrett N Evans — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 18:17:36 +0000

Thank you so much for this! Was about to lose my mind.

By: Geoffrey Wright

Geoffrey Wright — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 18:02:55 +0000

Dude … you’re my hero. This works perfectly.

By: zbo

zbo — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 10:34:03 +0000

THANKYOU! I have been on so many forums trying to find a way to do this. So simple yet nobody else including mac support or microsoft had a solution. IT works! I’m so happy – I format resume’s for a living and without this macro it would take me triple the amount of time to re-write or re-format every dot point.

By: AK

AK — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 06:22:23 +0000

Can’t thank you enough!!! Much easier than my workaround solution…

By: Thomas Munro

Thomas Munro — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:07:00 +0000

I’ve just found that the macro is no longer needed in Word for Mac 2016: simply use Tools>Customize Keyboard, search for “PasteTextOnly”, and assign that to cmd+v.
The default paste with formatting now appears as ctrl+v.

By: Thomas Munro

Thomas Munro — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 20:31:32 +0000

Worked brilliantly for me, thanks. I share your astonishment that this is still not the default after 30 years. Worse, there is no keyboard shortcut built in. The one option a billion Word users actually need all day, every day is buried in multiple submenus. Meanwhile the default option turns every document into a hideous ransom note.

By: Trever

Trever — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:18:46 +0000

Hi! thank you for solving this. When I paste your code into the editor I get ‘Runtime error 424′ and it highlights this line of code: Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText

Any ideas?

By: Nate dog

Nate dog — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 20:08:12 +0000

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Works great for word Mac 2017 and super easy. You rock!!!

By: Antonia

Antonia — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:54:38 +0000

STAR – THANKS !

By: Garz

Garz — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 17:41:51 +0000

You are a Saint. Thank you!!