MS Word Tip of the Day - Pasting unformatted text

If you copy and paste text from one document (or the internet) into an MS Word document, you've probably come across the formatting problem. When you paste the text it retains the formatting from the source document. I found a nice article on the MS site on how to create a work around which pastes unformatted text (refer to article at Microsoft site).

The idea is to create a macro that uses this line:

• Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText

Assign this macro to a key. I chose Ctrl+Shift+v so that Ctrl+v does a regular paste, and add "shift" for unformatted pasting.