In the annals of computer history, no two keystroke combinations have done more to boost worker productivity than Ctrl-C to copy to the clipboard whatever you've selected on the screen, and Ctrl-V to paste the contents of the clipboard to wherever you've placed the cursor. What often follows the paste is the laborious process of reformatting the pasted material to match the look of the destination document. Microsoft Word lets you apply the formatting of the destination document when you paste, but by default Ctrl-V retains the original formatting of the pasted text. Related stories. li. Back in 2007 I described how to.
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One of the welcomed changes to Word 2007 was the ability to change the program's default paste setting to plain text, which I explained in a. Word 2007 also added a third paste alternative: in addition to retaining the selection's original formatting or pasting only plain text, you can choose to 'match the destination formatting' when you paste (Word 2010 renames this option as 'merge formatting'). This setting adopts most of the formatting of the destination document but retains bold, italic, and other emphasis formatting of the selection. More helpful is the preview Word 2010 provides of the three paste options: hover over the buttons in the Paste dialog to see how the clipboard contents will appear after the paste. Pass your mouse over the three buttons in Word 2010's Paste dialog box to preview the pasted selection with original formatting, merged formatting, or unformatted. Screenshot by Dennis O'Reilly/CNET Make plain text the paste default in Word 2010 Previewing your paste avoids unpleasant surprises when adding material to a document from another source, but nine times out of ten I just want to paste plain text via Ctrl-V: no preview or mouse action required.
To change the default paste setting in Word 2007 and Word 2010, open the program's Advanced options. In Word 2007, click the Office button, then Word Options, then Advanced in the left pane.
In Word 2010, click File Options Advanced. In both programs, scroll to the 'Cut, copy, and paste' section of the Advanced settings. In the drop-down menus to the right of 'Paste between documents' and 'Paste between programs,' choose Keep Text Only.
You can also change the placement of images you paste (the default is to set pasted images in line with the text). Select Keep Text Only in the drop-down menus for Word 2010's pasting options to paste plain text in the program when you press Ctrl-V. Screenshot by Dennis O'Reilly/CNET Other options in this section let you preserve bullets and numbering when you paste plain text (on by default), use the Insert key to paste (off by default), show the Paste Options button when pasting (on by default), and use smart cut and paste. Click the Settings button to the right of this last option to access even more paste options. These include automatic adjustment of word, sentence, and paragraph spacing (all but the last on by default); automatic adjustment of table formatting and alignment (on by default); merge formatting when pasting from PowerPoint (on by default); automatic adjustment of data pasted from Excel (off by default); and merge pasted lists with surrounding lists (on by default). Word 2010's smart cut and paste options let you decide whether to adjust formatting automatically when pasting material from other sources. Screenshot by Dennis O'Reilly/CNET.
Calling ‘copy-paste’ an integral part of out lives won’t be an exaggeration, would it? Most of us would agree that we do it very frequently each day, usually on multiple devices. And almost all of that is done in the most basic way: copy text and paste it where needed. When it comes to images, we might need to be a little more careful. As far as copying of text is concerned, we know that when we copy a chunk, its formatting comes along. And, we have also discussed. What about images?
Well, there is nothing much to worry about the formatting that comes along. But, when our destination is a tool like MS Word we need to be sure about the paste options. By default, when you copy-paste or insert an image, it is with the text (see image below). This usually isn’t the desired result.
Indeed, each time we find ourselves manually. Tip for Gmail Users: While composing a mail if you are copying text from somewhere else you might need to re-format it. When we put an image in our document we are always presented with layout options and we can select the desired settings. Clicking on see more will present a Layout modal window with three tabs – Position, Text Wrapping and Size. These cater to various preference settings for the image.
What’s more interesting is that we have have our default properties set so that whenever we import an image it gets placed with those settings. The idea is to have a default paste option. Here is how to get that. Steps to Set Default Image Paste Options. Our steps are based on MS Word 2013. They should be very much the same on the lower versions as well. Step 1: Navigate to the File menu and launch the backstage view.
Step 2: From the left pane of the menu, select Options. Step 3: The Word Options window will show up.
On the left pane, you will see multiple preferences. Click on Advanced. Step 4: Now, on the right side scroll to the section for Cut, copy and paste.
Step 5: Locate the setting that reads, Insert/paste picture as and select the one you want. Here’s what they mean:-. In Line with Text keeps the image right where you insert it, next to the text. Square wraps text around the border of an image.
Tight wraps text tightly around the image. To understand how it is different from Square, try the settings with irregular images. Behind Text to display text over the image. In Front of Text to display the image over the text. Top and Bottom to place the image on its own line. Conclusion That is all about the default paste options with pictures on MS Word. I am sure it will help you from wasting time in manually setting up the pictures you insert next time.
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